Local agentic workflows are getting crazy good

Building on the previous post about how good current open TTS models are , this post focuses on local LLM s, and their explosion in quality in the recent years months. I have been using OpenRouter with, for the most part, DeepSeek v4 Flash . It is a very capable model, dirt-cheap (seems to be heavily subsidized, at $0.14/M tokens input and $0.28/M tokens output), and it works very well when it is…