Local vs. Cloud AI Coding Agents: Benchmark Results, Hardware Costs, and Performance
Can Local LLMs Replace Opus and Codex? I Tested a MacBook, an RTX 5080, a Spark and Chinese Models
I’ve written about one of my projects before—open-daimon (a group AI chat for Telegram and a platform for extensions). On top of it, I built my own harness that runs other harnesses in different roles. The public open-daimon repo is not updated because, for now, I develop only locally; it is faster that way.
At some point I wanted to get into local models, and the reason is simple: in the cloud, the rules belong to someone else, and they change without asking.
In October, it came up again that Anthropic's consumer termssay it plainly for residents of the EEA and Switzerland: do not use the services "for any commercial or business purposes". These terms cover Claude.ai and the Pro and Max plans. So a developer in Europe who...
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