MacBook m4 pro for coding llm

Hello, Haven’t been working with local llms for long time. Currently I have m4 pro with 48gb memory. It is really worth to try with local llms? All I can is probably qwen3-coder:30b or qwen3.5:27b without thinking and qwen2.5-coder-7b for auto suggestions. Do you think it is worth to play with it using continuous.de extension? Any benefits except: “my super innovative application that will never be published can’t be send to public llm”? Wouldn’t 20$ subscriptions won’t be better than local? submitted by /u/TheRandomDividendGuy [link] [comments.