Things I Think I Think... Preferring Local OSS LLMs

While spending some time inside the company Slack, I mentioned that I wanted to try a particular tool but using locally-hosted LLMs rather than cloud-hosted ones. The response was basically "LULZ y would u want to do that" and not only was I a little surprised at the response, I realized I felt a strong desire to explain why, in a format more suited to a blog post than a Slack message. (This is a…