some of you know that i've been tinkering with local AI models on my homelab setup. It's fun but here's the reality today: - nothing you can run on consumer hardware is even close to what you can buy with a monthly subscription. The gap is ~18 years when you compare frontier to frontier, but you're actually comparing frontier cloud LLMs (1 trillion parameter models) to what you can run locally which might be 30-100 billion. This is a hobby! - best hardware off the shelf is probably a new…