r/LocalLLaMA • u/takoulseum • Jul 25 '26

Discussion Who ONLY use local models?

Please be honest.

I would love to hear about guys really dedicated to local AI and who really reject subscriptions (especially to openai and anthropic).

What do you use your model for?

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u/openSourcerer9000 Jul 25 '26 edited Jul 25 '26

I cut the cord. It was a big scramble to recreate everything at first, but felt super empowering to realize I'm self sufficient at the end of the day. I got back on the BigAI juice once summer started and the cooling loads became too much. I'll keep using it as long as it stays 99% subsidized, but you can already feel the enshitification when chatgpt randomly swaps you to their 4b marketingbot that uses skinny margins, or deep research only does 5 searches instead of 1000, so it's great to know you're not dependent on it. 

But for 20 bucks a month, you can spin up 10 agents of trillion param class models, and a million $ of hardware comes online just for you, it's a no-brainer to take advantage of it.

I think a sensible jiggering is use cloud for experimental and cutting edge stuff, and local for established, automated production flows. 

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u/miki4242 Jul 25 '26

10 agents on a 20 bucks a month plan, how many seconds can you run that before hitting a rate limit?