Balancing Privacy and Power: Building a Hybrid Local-Cloud LLM Workflow
KhuyenTran16 · x · 2026-08-04
The article explores when to use local LLMs versus cloud models, proposing a hybrid workflow for an email Q&A system:
- Local models: Handle privacy-sensitive work and provide first-pass answers.
- Local evaluator: Assesses answer confidence to decide if escalation is needed.
- Cloud model: Intervenes only for low-confidence questions using sanitized context, handling complex reasoning.
This architecture effectively balances data privacy with advanced analytical capabilities. The article includes full implementation details.
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