Local AI can’t stay just a model picker
r/LocalLLaMA
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Generative AI
The wild thing about local AI right now is not just that people are running bigger models at home. It is how fast the whole floor is moving. A year or two ago, serious local inference felt like something only labs, cloud companies, or people with insane hardware could pull off. Now people are running useful models on MacBooks, used 3090s, old servers, open-box GPUs, weird workstation builds, and whatever spare parts they can make work. That part is awesome. But the I use local AI, the I think the missing piece is not another model. It is the layer around the model.