I am guilty of this, to a degree. I tried every local model around the time of the original llama 3 release, and for a while after that. Mostly the models aroun

I am guilty of this, to a degree. I tried every local model around the time of the original llama 3 release, and for a while after that. Mostly the models around 70b. They always felt like toys compared to the SOTA hosted foundation models. After that, I stopped trying them all out, because API access is so inexpensive, why wouldn't I use the good ones? More recently, I tried a few local models, and they are more impressive than they used to be... but still far behind their bigger brothers. They are good enough for some small tasks, but also less reliable in their output, so I'm back to API access for pennies.