What Rui Carmo thinks about the cloud

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Portuguese engineer and blogger; writes Tao of Mac, a personal site with entries going back to 2003, on Apple hardware, Linux, home labs, programming and AI coding agents. His Bluesky profile lists him as a principal at Microsoft.

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1. 8 Mar 2026

   Our readingThe gap between local and cloud AI models is significant, and even high-end hardware cannot match frontier cloud capabilities.

   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.

   ↗Mar 8th 2026 · 5 min readtaoofmac.com 1st of 3 in this piece