Banned from cloud services at work. Is a local AI worth it?

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Today I set up a full coding toolbox on a single RTX 5080 (with RAM offloading) that's actually viable.</p> <p><strong>Autocomplete</strong>:

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Went down the local LLM rabbit hole. Looked at P40s, V100s (almost bought an SXM2 version that doesn’t even plug into a normal motherboard lmao),

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>&quot;Hardware is the only moat&quot;.</p> <p>I read that quote yesterday, and at first, I thought it was just another person trying to sound

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Few days ago I posted about my <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1t94ito/i_have_deepseek_v4_pro_at_home/">DeepSeek V4 Pro</a>

<h2> FlashQLA Kernels Accelerate AI; NVIDIA &amp; AMD Unveil New GPUs </h2> <h3> Today's Highlights </h3> <p>This week, Qwen introduced FlashQLA, high-performance attention

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<!-- 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