Yes
The things that I need to automate do not need frontier models
juancn on Hacker News
90% of my model use is on local open-weights models
In the thread “The unbearable cheapness of open weight models”
Helped: Proper guidance via system prompts and MCP tools for error checking.
90% of my model use is on local open-weights models. The things that I need to automate do not need frontier models. Heck, even a gemma-4-12B-it-qat-UD-Q4_K_XL can deal with a lot of complexity if properly guided (it can run on 16GB of unified memory, for example on a base model Macbook Air). …