I'm on the same journey but I bought a 3090 and put qwen 3.6 27b on it. It covers some things with better reliability. Obviously it doesn't have the breadth of a large model. If that's even a selling point for large models for coding?
That's not a real equivalency. They are not necessarily the same (testing in production, hello!) And most importantly you do not have a local model because openai is not open!
I'll read it. It could be the quants too. Some quants I try are inexplicably bad, some seem better than official (or unsloth) quants... even what should be run of the mill gguf quantization.
Well that is already how it is done with numerous multi-decade open rewrites of closed games. They usually require the asset pack.
I don't know how this squares with law, but Oracle v Google gave a very valuable judgment to the public that an API is not copywritable. If we take the LLM out of it, that's all we are talking about in the pure case.
Of course, we can't take the LLM out, but it is the starting point.
I agree with this sentiment but the reasoned anecdotes do not agree. I imagine the flagship models have modalities/usages that we hn-ers don't imagine easily.