for me the exciting part is not another chat UI anymore.
the really useful stuff is much more boring
classification
routing
ranking
cleaning messy inputs
watching a stream of text and surfacing the few things that actually matter
that is where AI starts to feel real to me
not when it gives a fun answer in a demo
when it quietly removes manual work every day
I keep feeling local models fit that kind of job better than people admit
always on
cheap to run once set up
private by default
good enough for a lot of narrow tasks
I think a lot of people still judge local AI by asking can it replace ChatGPT for me
for actual products and workflows, I care way more about whether it can sit in the background and make a messy system usable
maybe I am wrong, but local AI gets more valuable the less it looks like a chatbot
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