Things I Think I Think: Preferring Local OSS LLMs Over Cloud APIs

Neward & Associates / Hacker News·low signal

Ted Neward's blog post advocates for local open-source LLMs over cloud APIs, arguing that the convenience-privacy tradeoff has tipped far enough that running models locally is now the pragmatic choice for most development tasks. 26 points and 4 comments on HN. Aligns with Vitalik Buterin's same-day post on self-sovereign LLM setups — two independent voices converging on local-first AI.