The pitch for local LLMs in 2026
The case for running an LLM on the machine you already own. Privacy, no per-call cost, faster first token, no rate limits, and it works on a flight.
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Local Llms
Posts on AI engineering, LLM systems, and software development.
Your first local LLM, start to finish
Install Ollama, pull Llama 3.2 3B, chat with it, hit its API, and fix the five things that break on a first install. You finish with a working local LLM.