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2026-07-18
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Building with Local LLMs: An Engineer's Approach to AI-Assisted Development
An engineer built SafeDevTools, a collection of privacy-first developer utilities, using only a local LLM (Gemma 4:12B via Ollama) on a MacBook M4 Pro. The developer argues that AI's real value is notβ¦