Ex-Meta ML engineer: local AI models have caught up faster than anyone realizes
Scobleizer · x · 2026-10-07
A developer who spent time in ML at Meta and a year on local AI argues local models have closed the gap to the frontier far faster than even hardcore AI power users realize, with Qwen3.8 waking some people up. He highlights a structural paradox: everyday users don't care about frontier intelligence and just want tasks done, but they don't know what local models are or how to run them — so those who can run local models don't bother, and those who'd benefit most can't.
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