alt Hacker NewsThis was my thought as well. I have a local model monitoring my finances and personal wiki - things I wouldn't want Claude to touch - and the Qwen 3.5 9b handles it all just perfectly.
I also needed a new device anyway - and having this much system memory to run virtual machines has been amazing.
Am paying subscriptions as well tho lol.
Your last line is what drives the point home, though.
Local isn’t strictly about NOT lab. It’s rapidly becoming apples (though not just macs) to oranges to compare the to.
Which is why the premise is silly. To be underwater it would need to be a real comparison. It’s not, and the claude fartifact doesn’t make it so.