Learning to use local AI is exciting, overwhelming, and frustrating
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The fact that a non-specialist can now run Hermes and Qwen locally on a Mac Studio shows local AI is crossing from hobbyist to early mainstream, but the friction is still real. If your product assumes cloud-only AI, start mapping a parallel local/offline path—privacy-motivated users are about to become a meaningful segment.
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