I can download a ~20GB file to plug into a C++ program that runs completely on my own computer, which gives it some sort of 'brain' with a simplistic form of knowledge acquisition, to the point where i can talk to it with natural language and ask it to do stuff for me.

Just yesterday i ran Devstral Small 2 under koboldcpp with a MCP server that exposes a few simple set-file-contents, get-file-contents, show-file-tree commands and i asked it "fix the formatting in foo1.h using foo2.h as a reference and add doxygen comments using the documentation from API.md" and it did it, all running on my own old PC with everything fitting in a 4 euro USB stick.

To me this is amazing. Sure, there are a bunch of issues, but it far from anything reated to IoT/Wearables/Crypto/etc (VR despite being a niche has a lot of fans so i'm not sacking it with the rest). I couldn't even see myself caring about any of those, but i could see several ways how i could use AI/LLMs before i was even able to run one (though admittedly, not all things panned out as i expected :-P).

> "Things just got stated. The future will be amazing".

No no. The present is already amazing. If you don't see it yet it's on you. I've been having the most fun I've had in 25 years of doing this thing.