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Mentary AI: I Treated a 'Cloud Vendor' and a 'Local Model' as the Same RFP — Here's the 4-Question Version That Actually Holds Up

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The short version Every local-AI pitch eventually gets asked the same four questions by whoever holds the budget. If your answer to any of them is "it depends" without a number behind it, the deal moves to the cloud vendor — not because cloud is better, but because their answer was checkable. I sel…

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  1. 2026-10-21 06:32 · DEV Community — AI
    Mentary AI: I Treated a 'Cloud Vendor' and a 'Local Model' as the Same RFP — Here's the 4-Question Version That Actually Holds Up

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