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Running Local LLMs on Developer Hardware is Mostly a Distraction

Running a seven-billion parameter model on unified memory sounds great. You spend an afternoon downloading GGUF files, tuning context windows, and fighting with Ollama. Then your fans spin up like a jet engine and the token generation crawls. The pitch promises privacy, zero latency, and no rate li…

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  1. 2026-11-03 15:29 · DEV Community — AI
    Running Local LLMs on Developer Hardware is Mostly a Distraction

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