Local-First LLM Routing: A Decision Table for Latency, Secrets, and Offline Mode
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A field-service team learns the hard way A field-service team built a support chatbot that sent every message to a cloud LLM endpoint. The design held until a technician drove through a tunnel, and the request queue grew into an eleven-minute backlog. The same week, a support ticket containing a cu…
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- 2026-08-27 03:05 · DEV Community — AI
Local-First LLM Routing: A Decision Table for Latency, Secrets, and Offline Mode