I tested 3 local LLMs on my actual work — and each model won at something different
… The long context Q&A is where things fell apart a bit though, and honestly that's less the model's fault and more my hardware’s. …
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I finally found a local LLM I want to use every day (and it's not for coding)
… The responses were more structured, more detailed, and I wasn't re-prompting nearly as much, which honestly matters more than anything when you're going back and forth for longer sessions. …
I went back to IPS after years on OLED, and it exposed OLED's biggest flaws
… For regular desktop use, full-screen brightness matters more, and honestly, I could immediately tell the difference the moment I opened the web browser on my LG 27GN950. …
Claude Code with a local LLM running offline is the hybrid setup I didn't know I needed
… Anthropic developed Constitutional AI CAI , a technique that trains Claude using a set of principles — a 'constitution' — to guide its responses toward being helpful, harmless, and honest. …
My local LLM rewrote my resume better than ChatGPT, and it's not even close
… ChatGPT may have given me its response in under a minute, while Gemma 4 took its sweet time and crossed the five-minute mark, but for something as career-critical as a resume, waiting an extra few minutes for deeper, more tailored, and more introspective feedback honestly feels like an incredibly f… …
I stopped chasing GPU upgrades once I realized DLSS was doing more for my framerate than the silicon
… For now, I'm honestly more excited about DLSS 5 than the idea of replacing my GPU altogether, which is something I probably wouldn't have said two years ago. Related Nvidia's DLSS 5 uses AI to "enhance" games with photorealistic lighting and more character detail AI-enhanced visuals are here.
I replaced the expensive Claude Pro subscription with these local models, and my productivity didn’t drop a bit
… Anthropic developed Constitutional AI CAI , a technique that trains Claude using a set of principles — a 'constitution' — to guide its responses toward being helpful, harmless, and honest. …
I made Claude slower and it completely changed how I use it
… I started questioning the process more. In one test, the response was around 300 words, and it took more than 2 minutes. Normally, I’d read it in 80–90 seconds, so this was noticeably slower than my natural reading pace. Yet I engaged more. I wasn’t skimming anymore; I was following. …
I ditched Claude Pro for free tools for a week — and one of them had no right being this good
… Anthropic developed Constitutional AI CAI , a technique that trains Claude using a set of principles — a 'constitution' — to guide its responses toward being helpful, harmless, and honest. …
The best Linux distro for beginners is getting a much snappier file explorer
… 200ms might not seem like much, and to be honest it never really bothered us before. …