Comment by me_bx

> The results are ALWAYS terrible compared to CLaude Code.

How much effort did you spend to make the local setup work well?

Local models are not plug and play, you need to adjust settings to make them behave intelligently.

On my side one model looking super dumb right after install ended up being 'agentic' after using the right chat template, fixing how tool calls are setup, fine-tuning plenty of params values, and adjusting the whole setup to my own hardware. Claude.ai (free) was great at helping me sort that all out.