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by David Heinemeier Hansson
Local LLMs are how nerds now justify a big computer they don't need
It's pretty incredible that we're able to run all these awesome AI models on our own hardware now. From downscaled versions of DeepSeek to gpt-oss-20b, there are many options for many types of computers.
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~1 minutes (1K characters)
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Nov 25, 2025