Local AI Coding is Finally Good Enough // TRAIN BRAIN

Local AI Coding is Finally Good Enough

Local LLMs are finally good enough at coding and this video is to show you just how good. I have a frontier model and a local model go head to head on a number of coding tasks in real production codebases in TypeScript and Rust. Hope this helps!
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