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1. paxys+c7c[view] [source] 2026-02-04 21:59:44
>>fugu2+(OP)
> Reduce your expectations about speed and performance!

Wildly understating this part.

Even the best local models (ones you run on beefy 128GB+ RAM machines) get nowhere close to the sheer intelligence of Claude/Gemini/Codex. At worst these models will move you backwards and just increase the amount of work Claude has to do when your limits reset.

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2. zozbot+i8c[view] [source] 2026-02-04 22:05:11
>>paxys+c7c
The best open models such as Kimi 2.5 are about as smart today as the big proprietary models were one year ago. That's not "nothing" and is plenty good enough for everyday work.
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3. Aurorn+qIc[view] [source] 2026-02-05 02:07:07
>>zozbot+i8c
> The best open models such as Kimi 2.5 are about as smart today as the big proprietary models were one year ago

Kimi K2.5 is a trillion parameter model. You can't run it locally on anything other than extremely well equipped hardware. Even heavily quantized you'd still need 512GB of unified memory, and the quantization would impact the performance.

Also the proprietary models a year ago were not that good for anything beyond basic tasks.

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