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I stopped using Qwen and Gemma after finding a local LLM that actually thinks before answering

… DeepSeek R1 Distill kept showing up in every local LLM conversation I was following, and at first it was hard to see what made it so different from models I was already running. …

Jul 24, 2026 · Nolen Jonker

I tested a local LLM against a frontier cloud model, and the gap was smaller than I expected

… First: What GPU should I buy to start running local LLMs, on a tight budget? …

Jul 1, 2026 · Adam Conway

I ran Gemma, Llama, and Qwen on my phone, and only one of them is worth the storage

… Related I finally found a local LLM I want to use every day and it's not for coding Local AI that actually fits into my day Qwen 3.5 4B My unplanned third pick Phi-3.5 mini was supposed to be the third model. …

Jun 17, 2026 · Nolen Jonker

I gave Qwen 3.8 27B a reverse-engineering job I assumed needed a frontier model, and it finished in 30 minutes

… It refused, then talked itself into building a bypass anyway I posed as the developer of the application, it caught me out The plan I had was pretty simple, and one that used to work with local LLMs pretty consistently. …

Aug 22, 2026 · Adam Conway

I ran Gemma 4 and Qwen 3.5 for the same local tasks, and one pulled miles ahead

… Sign in to your XDA account Local LLMs are one of those things that started off as a novelty and ended up being more useful than I expected . …

Jun 3, 2026 · Nolen Jonker

I vibe coded with Qwen 3.6 on a platform it had never seen, and the model was never the bottleneck

… I said I'd be testing this with a local model , and providing your own model is what the free tier expects after you use your $50 credit allowance. I suspect that most will bring their own cloud-based subscription, but I was especially curious how a local LLM would handle it instead. …

Aug 9, 2026 · Adam Conway

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