LOCAL LLM

A detailed breakdown of jamesob's viral local LLM guide covering the $2k and $40k hardware paths, critical BIOS settings, and why most setups fail at PCIe negotiation and IOMMU.

Alex Ellis shares real production experience running local LLMs: $12k hardware investment, 2-3 month ROI, and why treating local models as Opus substitutes misses the point entirely.

Cohere shipped its first developer-facing model on June 9, 2026. North Mini Code is a 30B mixture-of-experts coding model with 3B active parameters, Apache 2.0 weights, and a deployment footprint of a single H100. Here is what it actually offers and where the open questions are.

Choosing a local coding LLM in 2026 means balancing benchmark performance, hardware cost, and the compliance pressure to keep code off third-party servers. Here is what to run and on what hardware.

Gemma 4 ships byte-for-byte open weights from Google DeepMind. How developers deploy it locally, fine-tune it, and ship agents on top of it.