An essay of mine made it to the front page of HN today to spur an interesting discussion. I genuinely believe the puck is heading to an increased amount of local AI usage.

What I’m particularly excited by is that in a few years, local hardware will be even more capable of running highly intelligent and efficient models that are more powerful than we think possible right now.

I still believe frontier cloud hosted models will always be better from an intelligence point of view pound-for-pound, but the underlying point I was trying to make in my essay is not everything needs that level of intelligence.

In fact, most things don’t.