mitsuhiko: Don't dunk on local model tinkerers — they enable experimentation you can't get elsewhere
mitsuhiko · x · 2026-09-26
mitsuhiko pushes back on the claim that local models are useless: while they pale next to frontier models like Opus, they enable experimentation and innovation that most people otherwise couldn't do. He asks the community not to dunk on those who love to tinker.
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