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Can Local LLMs Replace Opus and Codex? I Tested a MacBook, an RTX 5080, a DGX Spark and Cheap Chinese Models

The same small banking repo with hidden traps, run through cloud models, local models on three machines, and cheap Chinese models on OpenRouter. I have a project I wrote about before, open-daimon (a group AI chat for Telegram and a platform for extensions). On top of it I built my own harness that…

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  1. 2026-11-04 17:18 · DEV Community — AI
    Can Local LLMs Replace Opus and Codex? I Tested a MacBook, an RTX 5080, a DGX Spark and Cheap Chinese Models

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