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Ask HN: What are you using local LLMs for?

adam_patarino — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 12:08:27 +0000

Local is genuinely viable and more and more labs are popping up pushing what’s possible on personal devices.

So what are people doing with it? With unlimited tokens there’s a lot of potential!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49122089

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New comment by adam_patarino in "Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? (2025)"

adam_patarino — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 12:03:56 +0000

When we started work on our logo for Rig I literally told our design agency we cant do butt holes

New comment by adam_patarino in "Bonsai 27B: A 27B-Class model that runs on a phone"

adam_patarino — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:13:38 +0000

What for? Cost savings? Something else?

New comment by adam_patarino in "Running local models is good now"

adam_patarino — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 13:02:55 +0000

I always find it amusing when people would rather spend $200 / mo than let their laptop fan turn on.

New comment by adam_patarino in "Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?"

adam_patarino — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 12:42:38 +0000

Yes! And we are using it to build Rig AI to make it easier for anyone to do it too!

We are post training qwen 3.6 and combining it with a custom inference engine and harness to get the most out of a smaller model.

New comment by adam_patarino in "Claude Opus 4.8"

adam_patarino — Fri, 29 May 2026 12:14:02 +0000

Smaller models can already outperform SOTA and massive models on specific tasks / domains.

New comment by adam_patarino in "Using AI to write better code more slowly"

adam_patarino — Tue, 26 May 2026 12:17:03 +0000

I like Zed for this. We are considering autocomplete for Rig after we launch our agent. Local would be 1000x faster.

New comment by adam_patarino in "Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment"

adam_patarino — Wed, 20 May 2026 16:22:56 +0000

Individual experience is rarely an accurate representation of the broader system.

New comment by adam_patarino in "I don't think AI will make your processes go faster"

adam_patarino — Sun, 17 May 2026 13:14:43 +0000

Completely agree. It amazes me how some folks think AI is unlike any other technology revolution. History repeats.

New comment by adam_patarino in "I don't think AI will make your processes go faster"

adam_patarino — Sun, 17 May 2026 12:55:26 +0000

> Every software developer knows that you can’t make projects go faster just by typing faster. If that were the case we would all be taking typing lessons.

So well said.

AI is unveiling how the bureaucracy is the slow part.

New comment by adam_patarino in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

adam_patarino — Sat, 16 May 2026 11:03:18 +0000

I’ve been talking to a lot of engineers about how they use AI in their day to day and it’s dramatically different than what you see from the hypers.

The vast majority use one agent at a time and careful step through code. The main benefit they report is often about researching the codebase and possible solutions.

New comment by adam_patarino in "Claude for Small Business"

adam_patarino — Thu, 14 May 2026 11:55:08 +0000

Gusto makes payroll zero clicks.

I’ve used xero and quickbooks and they integrate with many banks and expense management platforms to automate closing.

New comment by adam_patarino in "Claude for Small Business"

adam_patarino — Thu, 14 May 2026 11:34:51 +0000

Closing books and running payroll feel like solved problems with today’s saas and high stakes if you mess up.

This is one of those areas I would spend more time checking the outputs than it would take me to click the button myself.

New comment by adam_patarino in "Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML"

adam_patarino — Sat, 09 May 2026 11:41:24 +0000

It highlights the extremes the anthropic team adopts LLMs in their workflow.

I think most of us live somewhere in the middle, using the right tool / output for the job.

New comment by adam_patarino in "Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license"

adam_patarino — Fri, 08 May 2026 11:52:49 +0000

Sometimes I think Valve is just showing off

New comment by adam_patarino in "GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay"

adam_patarino — Mon, 04 May 2026 11:45:40 +0000

Diamond hands?

New comment by adam_patarino in "The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code"

adam_patarino — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 11:58:11 +0000

Most workforce reductions are using AI as a cover up for greedy short term bonuses.

Any exec using AI to pay fewer people lacks imagination.

New comment by adam_patarino in "An update on recent Claude Code quality reports"

adam_patarino — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 11:55:00 +0000

The explanations are all fine.

But they come after the team gaslit everyone, telling us it was a skill issue.

New comment by adam_patarino in "An update on recent Claude Code quality reports"

adam_patarino — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 11:53:07 +0000

It’s certainly #2. They have shown over dozens of decisions they move very quickly, break stuff, then have to both figure out what broke and how to explain it.

New comment by adam_patarino in "An update on recent Claude Code quality reports"

adam_patarino — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 11:51:31 +0000

Token anxiety is real mental overhead.