Help choose model

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>so as it says, I am not a FE eng, but want to do some light FE work<br /> I don't need the smartest model but need to get some work done.<br /> I

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Hi everyone </p> <p>I’m new to this community and just starting out with local LLMs. I’m using a MacBook M4 Air, so my hardware is somewhat

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I read this sub every day and I keep seeing benchmarks and discussions focused almost entirely on tokens/s generation speed. Prompt processing

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Hey everyone, I’m currently an ML Engineer looking to pick up iOS development, and I’m upgrading my hardware to handle both. I’m moving away from

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Hi everyone, so I have been playing around with the software side and an RTX 3090, but I'm wondering what hardware I could experiment with to get

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Hi. What do you think is the smallest Open model, as of Spring 2026, that can match/beat OpenAI GPT 4o Mini in the broadest sense possible?</p>

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Trying to auto categorize a former employees photos from personal and work related. It’s a lot of photos and I don’t want the guy to loose

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Hello. I'm ordering a small piece of software for personal needs (like a virtual keyboard or an expression recognition action app). I asked