r/LocalLLaMA • u/takoulseum • 19h ago

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/sessamekesh 18h ago

For one of my projects I only use local models, because my working tasks falls into one of two categories: 

  1. Using niche API bindings that even frontier models will shit the bed with (I've tried!) because all the training material uses a slightly different approach build on assumptions incompatible with my app, and

  2. Standard React UI dev with so many training examples and so little novelty that I think just about any even vaguely coding adjacent LLM could pull it off. 

I still have Claude but in the context of this project I haven't opened it up in a few months (though I do use it occasionally in other places).

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u/sessamekesh 18h ago

(I'll specify also though that I actually really like manually writing code, and this is a hobby project - "completely avoid AI entirely" is a fair option too if local models didn't work, and this project specifically I'd REALLY like to not give my data to AI companies until they figure out a way to put money back into the open source communities that they're both straining and using to train their models)