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What *specifically* do you still *need* cloud models for?

Honest question that I'm hoping to get some extended thoughts on. I run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next UD-Q4_K_XL locally at 262k context and it can do everything I want out of a personal agent, I've completely dropped cloud. I still use Claude at work but I'm a sysadmin not a software engineer, the 5.5 model…

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  1. 2026-11-02 19:51 · r/LocalLLM
    What *specifically* do you still *need* cloud models for?

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