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How far behind are local models in actual daily use, not benchmarks?

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I keep seeing people say local models have basically caught up, but then the example is usually a benchmark or one short prompt. Most of my use is coding and working on the same messy project for hours. I currently jump between Astra, Fable and Opus. They can read a lot of context, touch several fi…

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  1. 2026-09-07 19:34 · r/LocalLLM
    How far behind are local models in actual daily use, not benchmarks?

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