Local AI Is Dead. You Are at the Funeral

As the author stated, he earns money peddling hardware for these large, distributed coding agents so - to put it nicely - he is biased. I fundamentally disagree with almost everything he said. Local models are just starting to have their moment in terms of speed & intelligence. Theyre closing the gap on intelligence to a point where I can see future advancements in both software and consumer-level hardware making these distributed agent workflows kind of pointless.

AI trash, not worth reading if it’s not worth writing.

Twitter is dead. You are at the funeral.

Given that Nitter et al are now mostly gone, please stop posting Twitter links to HN, as it appears to be against the site rules.

Why have personal computers when there are mainframes? Why have TV when you can go to the cinema? I'm glad the author acknowledges their bias.

I disagree with this hot take. While perhaps correct for certain aspects, but I don’t see local ai going anywhere.

This post mentions nothing about the finite cash streams, circular profit structures, or the environmental/social/political impacts of the ever-expanding data centers where these VMs and AIs will supposedly live forever.

Will the cutting edge typically be with the cloud providers? Sure, it’s their existential requirement.

But, will and do local models fill a niche that will never go away in my view? Also yes.

Local AI isn’t going anywhere- it’s just getting started. Ten years from now either we will have dumb terminal glasses that can’t do anything without an internet connection, or local-first AI will be supplemented by cloud providers for the larger needs. I vote the latter, and it would appear some such as Apple do as well.

Not nearly every use case for AI is a coding environment. This person seems to forget there aren’t 8.3+ billion developers on Earth. And not nearly every use for AI requires a cutting-edge model.

A fight worth fighting

Of course someone that sells cloud computing would publish this drivel. My local qwen3.8 27b system doing valuable work night after night disagrees.

God the blatant AI prose is so tiring to read.

At this point I just assume the people publishing this stuff are not able to discern the difference between good writing and bad.

English isn't even my first language and its plain as day to me when someone uses AI to generate these walls of text.