I tested 3 tiny local LLMs for everyday work, and only one of them impressed me
…And after some digging, it appears to be an issue with LM Studio rather than the model. So it is what it is for now. The real-time test with Brave Search…
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I tried Cursor 3.0 and I’m not going back to VS Code or Claude Code anytime soon
3d agoTerminal agents are replacing VS Code as the center of my development workflow
6d agoI replaced Cursor and Antigravity with a completely local VS Code setup, and I missed less than I expected
1w agoI stopped paying for Obsidian after discovering VS Code can handle my notes just as well with the right extensions
1w agoLocal LLMs are actually good now, and I wasted months not realizing it
…My runner of choice is LM Studio, which has a clean and easy interface that never felt like I was doing anything particularly technical. It's basically just a chat window with…
I quit using Adobe Firefly for a free open-source alternative
…On the other end of it, there's ChatGPT, which had its whole Studio Ghibli moment last year that I'd rather not get into here. I'm not arguing anyone needs…
Google's Gemma 4 finally made me care about running local LLMs
…If that's you, LM Studio is a great alternative. It gives you a clean desktop app with a visual interface where you can browse, download, and chat with models without even…
I built a local AI stack with 5 Docker containers, and now I'll never pay for ChatGPT again
…Ollama lets me run models like gpt-oss (20B), qwen2.5-coder (7B), llama3.1 (8B), Mistral (7B), DeepSeek (14B), Gemma, and others depending on what I need. Some models are better…
Local models now handle 90% of what I used Claude Pro for, but the other 10% is worth paying for
…And the more time I spend in my LM Studio setup , the more I notice how much of what I used to default to Claude for is now perfectly handled locally. Not…
I built my entire second brain in Claude Projects, and NotebookLM can't compete anymore
…While that extends to NotebookLM too, with its Slide Decks feature and the other Studio outputs, Claude's aesthetic is a bit more polished. The interactive visuals alone are something I haven…
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