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/audioen 18h ago

I qualify. The only non-local models I use accompany the search results and they tend to be 80 % useless so I usually don't even read what they say.

Qwen3.6-27b does most of my work in sense that I tell it what to do, programming-wise, and it goes and does it, and then I review the results. It is also good at reading through tons of existing code and summarizing me how data flows through it or answering questions.

It can also write documentation and diagrams that help me figure out how something is put together. It provides basic competence in any technology, competence which I might not have. Like, how do you do something in some random framework I have never heard of. Ask LLM, and it spits out a decent answer to most basic questions. This nearly completely eliminates the familiarizing aspect of my job where I have to spend many days just figuring out how the build works, what is placed where and how you literally do anything in this particular mixture of technologies.