Local LLM vs Claude Code: 96% of My Requests Failed Locally. Half the Steps Didn't.
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The pitch for running Claude Code on a local model goes like this: point it at Ollama, stop paying per token, keep your code on your machine. I have an RTX 4070 with qwen3.5:4b on it, so I wanted that to be true. Before swapping anything, I counted. I took 100 requests I had actually sent to Claude…
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- 2026-09-29 19:53 · DEV Community — AI
Local LLM vs Claude Code: 96% of My Requests Failed Locally. Half the Steps Didn't.