Do you mind sharing what models you used and what your experience was? In my opinion the Qwen 3.6 models or maybe the 3.5 were the first local models that were actually useful, but I don’t have that much experience.

Yeah okay. I understand the monetary angle.

However I also have never spent a dime on AI, and I don’t use Gemini. I run Qwen3.6 on my graphics card, or use opencodes free tier. Deepseek-v4- flash is pretty good.

I’ve read a comment recently that Googles local Gemma models hallucinate less than Gemini, but I don’t know if that’s true, since I hardly use Gemma and Gemini not at all.

I recommend downloading some local models and a harness like pi or opencode if you want to play around an have the hardware for it.

That doesn’t make any sense.:

„This sub-par product of an evil mega corporation that uses their market power to shove this product down everyone’s throat is all I’m willing to tolerate.“

As bad as Antrophic and openAI are, their product is better and they don’t embed it into phones and search engines. (Not saying they wouldnt‘t if they have the chance, but they haven’t)

First of: When? Few months make a huge difference. Development happens fast.

Second: Gemini is not the top of the line. You could do worse - if you use the fucking LLMs from meta.

So you’re decided not to use a useful tool, because you don’t like it. Gotcha.

I once thought the fediverse was full of cool, techsavy people. Turned out it’s full of old people yelling at clouds.

I’ve seen a couple of Linux devs talk about how they just give a prompt to claude and walk away leaving it alone to spit out the code

While I share Linus opinion on LLMs, I think doing this shit is extremely stupid and lazy.

There seems to be legal discussions about that. It’s not quite as simple as you say:

However, there may be cases in which a different assessment is justified, namely when users use and operate the LLM as a tool that merely implements their personal creative intent. This could be compared somewhat more vividly to using a paintbrush. If the brush merely rolls over the paper, for example because it is dropped, no copyright-protected work is created, even if paint remains on the paper. However, if a painter deliberately swings the brush in a certain way, a protected painting can be created. If AI is used in a comparable way a copyright-protected work can indeed be created.

https://kpmg-law.de/en/ai-and-copyright-what-is-permitted-when-using-llms/