Yes
the results are so very much excellent enough for about 60% of my work
mark_l_watson on Hacker News
60% of my work
In the thread “Gemini ending free use of Flash and Pro models”
Helped: Running local quantized models on high-RAM hardware for majority of tasks.
… I even get a short weekly (one each) opus and gemini vibe coding sessions with agy. I pay for inference: I paid $3300 for a Mac mini 64G M5-Pro which runs Qwen-3.8-Flash-Next (3 bit quant) with pi-dev and the results are so very much excellent enough for about 60% of my work and paying Deepseek for deepseek-4.1-flash with Deepseek Harness handles almost everything else. I worked at Google in 2013 and I mostly like them as a company. …