Comment by fg137

> "hmm, maybe I should do this one locally"

If your time is worth nothing to even triage that question.

Unless you have fanatic needs for data privacy or really don't have Internet, running local models almost certainly results in negative ROI overall.

Not to mention that you need to have decent hardware (that is getting expensive by the day) to even have this conversation in the first place.

People in this post talk as if everyone has a Mac with 24GB or 32GB RAM. When the reality is that most people use a Windows laptop with crappy integrated GPU.