{"slug": "patience-is-required-for-local-ai", "title": "Patience Is Required for Local AI", "summary": "A community observer notes that users of local AI models are often impatient, declaring new models useless within hours of release and flooding maintainers with low-quality complaints, which delays optimization. The author argues that models typically take months to reach peak performance and that patience is necessary, citing that slower token rates and longer thinking traces can lead to better results.", "body_md": "I've been dabbling with running AI models at home for a few years now, and I've noticed one consistent pattern among the community. Many people are impatient. On day 1 of a new model launch, it probably isn't going to work well. While the maintainers of the foundational open-source software sometimes get early access to a model, they very rarely had enough time or manpower to ensure that it is operating at 100% of its capability. In fact, it typically takes months for a model to reach its plateau, and that's assuming people remain interested. Despite this, the average forum poster will spend a couple of hours poking at a model on day 1 and declare it to be shit. What's worse is that those impatient users flood the open-source maintainers with low-quality complaints, requests, questions, etc. The irony is that just further delays the plateau.\n\nThe impatience extends beyond getting models running. It's all too common to read a comment along the lines of \"this model will only run at 15 tokens per second on your hardware; I wouldn't even bother with it\" or \"this model thinks way too much; I just want it to get the job done.\" What exactly are we in such a rush for? Fifteen tokens per second isn't fast, but I can go live my life while my computer works for me. I also know that longer thinking traces are directly correlated with better performance. Why would I want the model to perform worse? If you can't be patient, then maybe local models aren't right for you.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/patience-is-required-for-local-ai", "canonical_source": "https://kylemcgough.com/blogs/patience-is-required-for-local-ai", "published_at": "2026-08-26 16:36:40+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-26 16:46:13.689885+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-ethics"], "entities": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/patience-is-required-for-local-ai", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/patience-is-required-for-local-ai.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/patience-is-required-for-local-ai.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/patience-is-required-for-local-ai.jsonld"}}