Comment by mark_l_watson
1 month ago
I agree with you. I do have some local model LLM support configured in Emacs, as well as integration with gemini 3 flash. However, all LLM support is turned off in my setup unless I specifically enable it for a few minutes.
I will definitely try the 1.5B model but I usually use LLMs by taking the time to edit a large one-shot prompt and feed it to either one of the new 8B or 30B local models or to gemini 3 flash via the app, web interface, or API.
Small purpose-built models are largely under-appreciated. I believe that it is too easy to fall into the trap of defaulting to the strongest models and to over rely on them. Shameless plug: it is still incomplete, but I have released an early version on my book ‘Winning Big With Small AI’ - so, I admit my opinions are a little biased!
do you know a good way to give context files in emacs? currently i have to either do ctrl-x+h to select file content of individual files to give to ai or copy files themselves from ai's chat interface. I would much prefer selecting all files at once and get their content copied to clipboard.