Ask HN: What do you use local models for?

A Hacker News user asks the community about practical use-cases for small 8B-26B local models, specifically in smart home environments and software engineering work, seeking to understand their advantages over specific ML algorithms or simple if/else logic.

| |||||||||||| 1 point by | What are the use-cases for using small 8B-26B models? How are these helpful versus more specific ML algorithms or just simple if/else. I am thinking about smart home environment, or how to apply it to my SWE work. | ||||||||||| Applications are open till July 27. |