i think many of the devs here are busy using frontier models to ship and don't want to be slowed down with cumbersome hardware/software setups.
i was adamant about creating a local setup but models werent great and i didnt know enough when i started. now i need some more vram to run gemma4 with a reasonable context window. would really like to vibe code on my own hardware. in the meantime i dipped my toes into github copilot, gemini and claude and had fun producing functional apps.
i will get back to my setup and have lately been thinking that a mac could be the easiest solution to my vram issues. not sure if the speed hit will be too much so might try to add abother gpu to my rig.
what do you have cooking in your lab?
