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Same experience for me. I think people need to start providing context for the type of work they're doing when repeating the local model hype. Maybe they're working with a cookie cutter React app and it does the job fine.
I work on Go and Rust mostly. The experience can be wildly different based on model, quantization, and harness. The fact that it didn't work for you doesn't mean everyone is trying to hype local models, people are getting real work done.
Others, especially startups or indie hackers, use AI like it were their end-all be-all assistant. "Hey Jeeves, go add Apple Sign In, Google Sign In to our signup pages. Also, investigate why we're not utilizing cached inputs on our AI APIs correctly. And add Maestro flows for every screen in our app. Btw check out posthog, supabase, and Stripe - is our new agent changing engagement or trial->paid conversion rates?"
And 3 hours later, you have all these done. But only if you use the right multi trillion param models.