“Again, these are eight assumptions that every distributed system developer makes at some point in their life, and any one of these assumptions usually ends up creating painful scenarios when the assumption is proven false, as they always are. Yes, networks have gotten better than they were twenty, or even ten, years ago, but they're still fallible, and that still doesn't prevent any of the other seven from creating problems.”
https://blogs.newardassociates.com/blog/2026/titit-local-ai.html
Things I Think I Think... Preferring Local OSS LLMs

Mulling out loud (and defending) why I think local-hosted LLMs are better than the cloud-hosted ones.