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Why I chose on-device inference for a writing assistant

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When I built DraftKey, the biggest decision was running the model locally instead of calling a cloud API. Here are the tradeoffs. The upside: people's text never leaves their Mac, it works offline, and there are no per-request API costs. The downside: the app needs a model download of about 1.1 GB,…

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  1. 2026-10-12 16:54 · DEV Community — AI
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