My experience thus far is that the local models are a) pretty slow and b) prone to making broken tool calls. Because of (a) the iteration loop slows down enough to where I wander off to do other tasks, meaning that (b) is way more problematic because I don't see it for who knows how long.
This is, however, a major improvement from ~6 months ago when even a single token `hi` from an agentic CLI could take >3 minutes to generate a response. I suspect the parallel processing of LMStudio 0.4.x and some better tuning of the initial context payload is responsible.
I see this as the next great wave of work for me and my team. We sustained our business for a good 5–8 years on rescuing legacy code from offshore teams as small-to-medium sized companies re-shored their contract devs. We're currently in a demand lull as these same companies have started relying heavily on LLMs to "write" "code" --- but as long as we survive the next 18 months, I see a large opportunity as these businesses start to feel the weight of their accumulated tech debt accrued by trusting claude when it says "your code is now production ready."
Like my co-founder said, we're a small company based in the US, and hiring in foreign jurisdictions is both expensive and time consuming. We're currently set up to hire in the US and Canada, and while we'd be willing to expand our footprint for the right candidate, the easiest thing for us is to look for candidates in our current operating jurisdictions.
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I still think, pound for pound, it’s hard to beat the productivity and stability of rails as a framework for new web projects. Welcome changes here, but most notably, this new major version update doesn’t appear to have any real breaking changes with the apps we’ve been running in production for years.
This is, however, a major improvement from ~6 months ago when even a single token `hi` from an agentic CLI could take >3 minutes to generate a response. I suspect the parallel processing of LMStudio 0.4.x and some better tuning of the initial context payload is responsible.
6 months from now, who knows?