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The good news is that you don't need a massive, GPU-melting frontier model for this workflow. Smaller models are perfectly capable of identifying missing context and asking useful follow-up questions. Popular options include lightweight open models like Google's Gemma 4, Meta's Llama 4 Scout, Microsoft's Phi-4, and compact models from Mistral and Qwen. These models are readily available as mentioned through tools like LM Studio and GPT4All, running comfortably on standard consumer hardware.
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