What Vicki Boykis thinks about developer tools

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Machine learning engineer working on recommender systems, personalization and information retrieval; author of the 'What are embeddings?' text.

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1. 15 Jun 2026

   Our readingLocal models are not yet reliable enough for production software development.

   Their wordsNeedless to say, I'm not sure this is ready for production software development quite yet.

   ↗Running local models is good nowvickiboykis.com 2nd of 3 in this piece