https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLM/ and https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLlama/ are pretty active. It's more "software & gear discussion" than "use cases", admittedly, I think because the people looking for software/gear…
"Having your data locally" is definitely the biggest one. - The general consensus seems to be that the frontier models are kind of (understandably) "benchmaxxed" towards coding benchmarks and have suffered in some other…
I can't think of cases where mouse affordances necessarily, intrinsically make things worse for keyboard users. Of course, there's the extremely common case of keyboard support being half-assed or missing from GUI apps.…
simulation becomes real enough There's also all the ancillary activities. Riding a real horse isn't just about the horse ride, right? It's about the trip to the horse farm. The small but real danger. If you're doing it…
I think it makes sense. Do you think most potential buyers are coming from last year's model, or from laptops that are more like 3-5 years old? As long as they're clear about the comparisons they're making ("X% more…
It's also absolutely wild that you apparently cannot spec one with more than 32GB, for any amount of money? Wow. Not that I blame Apple here, for once. Seems like they're trying to cope with the limited quantity of RAM…
That's interesting. (I mean that genuinely. Sometimes when people say that, they mean "You seem crazy") What's the appeal there? Doing big-RAM-requirement stuff that just won't run on a laptop?
I was just thinking the same thing. The M-series is so good, the demand for uber-desktops is smaller than ever. And all professionals I know truly want/need the portability of a laptop. the iMac returned to its roots as…
I feel like in 2026 maybe they realized that "pro" users (engineers, designers) mostly just want laptops + external monitors anyway. The Apple Silicon CPUs are so f'ing good, the % of people who need an uber-desktop is…
All of what you said is wonderful, and I want to particularly call out this: I stopped assuming I had to work the way people said I should. [...] I get to own everything but the typing that way I think this gets to the…
Yeah, never thought I'd say this but I think I agree with the marketing guys here. I guess there's a first time for everything. "Graphics Processing Unit" was purely a marketing term at the time. I mean, there's no lies…
bespoke micro-explainers Thank you for calling this out. There are certainly a lot of legitimate gripes with LLM generated code, but also a lot of never-before-practical solutions to manage code as well. FWIW, I haven't…
I have had pretty decent success instructing OpenAI/Anthropic models to do this. By default, they don't care too much about human readability (which is understandable) but they're amenable to instruction. - Basic…
> What they specifically said was "enterprise scale projects". Enterprise scale means lots of users, decades of backwards compatibility, regulation compliance, logging and auditing, reporting, role based access control…
My recollection (NE USA) was that crappy monitors were common. I.T. was just less well funded in general back then, I think, and hardware was relatively more expensive. There was also just much less understanding of…
Yeah, I used it back then. A lot of VBScript on the server and a couple of years Visual Basic on the desktop. VB/VBScript is almost like writing shell scripts, in one sense. You can write really maintainable, even…
Sans context, I really like the Anthropic and Claude's faux-academic, minimal-ish, intellectual-ish branding. (Especially the way it looked ~12 months ago -- it's gotten more cluttered since then. Perhaps unavoidably,…
VB6 sure looks nice, but I promise it was a hostile mess for anything besides simple GUI apps. Also, trust me, the VB6 interface hits a lot different (which is to say: worse) on a cramped 800x600 or 1024x1768 monitor…
It doesn't really matter what the AI companies want, if they misjudge the market somebody will just start a competitor and take it. This kind of "free markets solve everything" magical thinking is cool when we're…
> And I think it's getting obvious by now that inference will move to local compute From the bottom of my heart, I hope that's the future. I'm not convinced that will be the case. The AI companies don't want you to have…
> I wonder how much of that is caused by folks actually noticing actual degradation in product quality over time (whether or not this exact product is suffering from it). That's certainly common! I think ASICS' running…
> Then it's probably not really a big deal to find a public charger somewhere you'd be spending the hour or so anyway. you dont see any newish shopping center these days wo a bank or two of chargers but also lots of…
For years I used to buy ASICS running shoes. Every year they released a new model of each shoe: "Nimbus 23", then "Nimbus 24" the next year, etc. And every year people would complain in the user reviews about how each…
Anecdotally, I've never heard this. I have an American hybrid from 10+ years ago with 90K miles and it's been super reliable. (Knock on wood...)
> Unless you live in bumfuck nowhere with expensive electricity, zero solar power and a daily 5 hour commute, an EV will likely work just fine for you. Whoa, you're leaving out some pretty big demographics. There are…
https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLM/ and https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLlama/ are pretty active. It's more "software & gear discussion" than "use cases", admittedly, I think because the people looking for software/gear…
"Having your data locally" is definitely the biggest one. - The general consensus seems to be that the frontier models are kind of (understandably) "benchmaxxed" towards coding benchmarks and have suffered in some other…
I can't think of cases where mouse affordances necessarily, intrinsically make things worse for keyboard users. Of course, there's the extremely common case of keyboard support being half-assed or missing from GUI apps.…
simulation becomes real enough There's also all the ancillary activities. Riding a real horse isn't just about the horse ride, right? It's about the trip to the horse farm. The small but real danger. If you're doing it…
I think it makes sense. Do you think most potential buyers are coming from last year's model, or from laptops that are more like 3-5 years old? As long as they're clear about the comparisons they're making ("X% more…
It's also absolutely wild that you apparently cannot spec one with more than 32GB, for any amount of money? Wow. Not that I blame Apple here, for once. Seems like they're trying to cope with the limited quantity of RAM…
That's interesting. (I mean that genuinely. Sometimes when people say that, they mean "You seem crazy") What's the appeal there? Doing big-RAM-requirement stuff that just won't run on a laptop?
I was just thinking the same thing. The M-series is so good, the demand for uber-desktops is smaller than ever. And all professionals I know truly want/need the portability of a laptop. the iMac returned to its roots as…
I feel like in 2026 maybe they realized that "pro" users (engineers, designers) mostly just want laptops + external monitors anyway. The Apple Silicon CPUs are so f'ing good, the % of people who need an uber-desktop is…
All of what you said is wonderful, and I want to particularly call out this: I stopped assuming I had to work the way people said I should. [...] I get to own everything but the typing that way I think this gets to the…
Yeah, never thought I'd say this but I think I agree with the marketing guys here. I guess there's a first time for everything. "Graphics Processing Unit" was purely a marketing term at the time. I mean, there's no lies…
bespoke micro-explainers Thank you for calling this out. There are certainly a lot of legitimate gripes with LLM generated code, but also a lot of never-before-practical solutions to manage code as well. FWIW, I haven't…
I have had pretty decent success instructing OpenAI/Anthropic models to do this. By default, they don't care too much about human readability (which is understandable) but they're amenable to instruction. - Basic…
> What they specifically said was "enterprise scale projects". Enterprise scale means lots of users, decades of backwards compatibility, regulation compliance, logging and auditing, reporting, role based access control…
My recollection (NE USA) was that crappy monitors were common. I.T. was just less well funded in general back then, I think, and hardware was relatively more expensive. There was also just much less understanding of…
Yeah, I used it back then. A lot of VBScript on the server and a couple of years Visual Basic on the desktop. VB/VBScript is almost like writing shell scripts, in one sense. You can write really maintainable, even…
Sans context, I really like the Anthropic and Claude's faux-academic, minimal-ish, intellectual-ish branding. (Especially the way it looked ~12 months ago -- it's gotten more cluttered since then. Perhaps unavoidably,…
VB6 sure looks nice, but I promise it was a hostile mess for anything besides simple GUI apps. Also, trust me, the VB6 interface hits a lot different (which is to say: worse) on a cramped 800x600 or 1024x1768 monitor…
It doesn't really matter what the AI companies want, if they misjudge the market somebody will just start a competitor and take it. This kind of "free markets solve everything" magical thinking is cool when we're…
> And I think it's getting obvious by now that inference will move to local compute From the bottom of my heart, I hope that's the future. I'm not convinced that will be the case. The AI companies don't want you to have…
> I wonder how much of that is caused by folks actually noticing actual degradation in product quality over time (whether or not this exact product is suffering from it). That's certainly common! I think ASICS' running…
> Then it's probably not really a big deal to find a public charger somewhere you'd be spending the hour or so anyway. you dont see any newish shopping center these days wo a bank or two of chargers but also lots of…
For years I used to buy ASICS running shoes. Every year they released a new model of each shoe: "Nimbus 23", then "Nimbus 24" the next year, etc. And every year people would complain in the user reviews about how each…
Anecdotally, I've never heard this. I have an American hybrid from 10+ years ago with 90K miles and it's been super reliable. (Knock on wood...)
> Unless you live in bumfuck nowhere with expensive electricity, zero solar power and a daily 5 hour commute, an EV will likely work just fine for you. Whoa, you're leaving out some pretty big demographics. There are…