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Their wordsNone of these things are really "local" in any meaningful sense-the gap between local and cloud models is huge, and even tens of thousands of dollars in hardware won't get you close to frontier capabilities.
Their wordsAnd there is an almost weekly hype cycle around local models that I think is totally unwarranted in practice.
Their wordsSome languages are inherently better for agents-not in terms of popularity (any agent can do decent Python), but because strong types and annotations help models understand intent and self-correct.
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