Thanks to the model outage, I finally have an excuse to run LLMs at home
natesiggard · x · 2026-09-04
Amid an AI provider outage that left users unable to work, natesiggard joked that the downtime finally gave him justification to spend far too much money running the models locally at home. The quip reflects how service outages are pushing heavy users toward local inference setups.
Related event: AI Outage Reignites Debate Over Local Model Deployment(2 posts)→
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