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Open source models are growers, closed models are showers.

Every closed model release goes the same way. Day one, the benchmarks are on fire, Twitter melts down, and you cancel your wknd plans because "this changes everything." By day four you're asking whether it's just you or it's gotten dumber. The official statement is that the model hasn’t changed but…

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  1. 2026-10-20 06:45 · r/LocalLLM
    Open source models are growers, closed models are showers.

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