I Replaced ChatGPT With Local AI for 30 Days. Here’s What Actually Happened. (opens in new tab)

Author(s): MayhemCode Originally published on Towards AI. Why Local AI Is Not a Fringe Thing Anymore My ChatGPT Plus subscription was costing me $20 a month. That’s $240 a year. For someone who uses AI every single day for drafting, coding help, summarizing long PDFs that number started to bother me. Not because it’s too expensive in absolute terms, but because I kept hearing people say local models had gotten good enough to replace it. I wanted to find out if that was actually true. Why Loca...