Running Local LLMs for Coding and Private Agents
Why Run Models Locally? Cloud-hosted LLMs are convenient, but they come with trade-offs that matter when you are writing code or building private tools. Every prompt you send to a hosted API leaves your machine — your proprietary code, internal architecture details, database schemas, and business logic all travel to a third-party server. For personal projects this might be acceptable, but for anything involving proprietary code, client data, or internal tooling, it raises real concerns. ...