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>>tablet+(OP)
The privacy aspect and other security risks tho? So far all the praise I hear on productivity are from people using cloud-hosted models.

Claude, Gemini, Copilot and and ChatGPT are non-starters for privacy-minded folks.

So far, local experiements with agents have left me underwhelmed. Tried everything on ollama that can run on my dedicated Ryzen 8700G with 96GB DDR5. I'm ready to blow ~10-15k USD on a better rig if I see value in it but if I extrapolate current results I believe it'll be another CPU generation before I can expect positive productivity output from properly securely running local models when factoring in the setup and meta.

>>baobun+44
This is probably the biggest danger. Everyone is assuming optimization work reduces cost faster than these companies burn through capital. I'm half inclined to assume optimization work will do it, but it's far from as obvious as they want to portray it.