I get a lot of satisfaction using a significant chunk of my work-provided Claude plan researching and developing local LLM solutions for work.

Claude has been helping me tune models to run better on our big compute rack at work, researching which leading edge open models will fit in hardware and are good for our workloads, and it's been helping me write test fixtures to evaluate how things perform.

At several points, Claude has expressed surprise at the quality of results from my local LLMs. While I know that doesn't mean anything, it still feels like giving Anthropic the finger, which is always great.