Are we overusing the cloud for embarrassingly simple AI tasks?

For those running smaller models locally, which tasks have you completely stopped sending to the cloud first?

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2026-10-23 22:42 · r/LocalLLM
Are we overusing the cloud for embarrassingly simple AI tasks?

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