Open, small LLMs have gotten good enough that non-technical people can benefit from having a local chatbot on their machine.
I don't pay for ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, or Claude – I stick to my self-hosted LLMs instead
There's no point in relying on AI tools when my local LLMs can handle everything
The AI summer — Benedict Evans
Hundreds of millions of people have tried ChatGPT, but most of them haven’t been back. Every big company has done a pilot, but far fewer are in deployment. Some of this is just a matter of time. But LLMs might also be a trap: they look like products and they look magic, but they aren’t. Maybe we ha
The scientific case for being nice to your chatbot
New research confirms that LLMs often perform better when you encourage them. But why?
The Bitter Lesson of LLM Extensions
From ChatGPT Plugins to Agent Skills, a look at how we've been trying (and failing) to extend LLMs for the last three years.
The LLM Problem
So far I’ve had nothing to say about the LLM chatbot frenzy. My understanding of the technology is shallow and I’ve no sense for its functional envelope, and lots of other people have had smart things to say. I hadn’t even conversed with any of the bots. But I fell off the wagon a few days ago and put time into GPT3 and (especially) the new GPT4-based Bing chat. I got off Bing’s waitlist a few days before the recent general availability, so I have more hands-on than most people. Plus I caught up on background reading. So, question: Are LLMs dangerous distractions or are they a glowing harbinger of a bright future? (Spoiler: I’m dubious but uncertain.)
Your Laptop Isn’t Ready for LLMs. That’s About to Change
The quest to run large AI models locally on an individual's machine are driving the biggest change in laptop architecture in decades.
This Web Tool Sabotages AI Chatbots By Making Them Really, Really Slow
Artist Sam Lavigne created ‘Slow LLM’ to make people question their dependence on tools like Claude and ChatGPT. Or at least, make them super annoying to use.
How to write it like you told it
What do you say to someone who wants to write but struggles with writing and is tempted to use an LLM-based chatbot?
Vaibhav (VB) Srivastav on Twitter / X
I do agree to some extent - I do use variety of proprietary models for day to day use both as a soundboard and for workHowever, majority of the issues with local LLMs today is in the scaffolding/ runner - in most cases if you’re getting sub-par outputs - it’s the chat template,…— Vaibhav (VB) Srivastav (@reach_vb) November 25, 2025
Texting a Random Stranger Better for Loneliness Than Talking to a Chatbot, Study Shows
A newly published study of how college students interact with chatbots and human strangers showed talking to a random person offers more connection than an LLM.
open-slopware
Free/Open Source Software choosing to use and/or support LLM usage/AI, as well as alternatives and tips to requesting better policies or forking.
OpenRouter
The unified interface for LLMs. Find the best models & prices for your prompts
LLMs running on my laptop can drive coding agents now | Simon P. Couch
Qwen 3.5 and Gemma 4 are a step change for local coding agents.
Codifying a ChatGPT workflow into a malleable GUI
Wouldn't it be neat if you could use LLMs to create little personal utility apps as the need arises? Here's a story where I did just that...
