Real-world
Regulated work
Concrete workflows, including the tradeoffs and limitations reported by their authors.
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A lawyer keeps client documents off any cloud API
Confidentiality obligations, not a specific incident, are enough reason for this lawyer to do all document review and drafting locally.
Three rigs for freelance work an NDA won't let leave the building
Client confidentiality rules out cloud APIs for this freelancer, who spreads different model sizes across three separate machines.
Local-only by requirement: tracing binaries for cybersecurity research
Compliance, not preference, rules out any cloud infrastructure for this cybersecurity researcher's day-to-day binary analysis.
Drafting medical reports from clinical notes, kept fully local for privacy
Turning clinical notes into medical reports is privacy-sensitive enough that this person built a dedicated local skill for it rather than risk a cloud tool.
A HIPAA-style internal LLM platform, built on a cluster of DGX Sparks
Beyond personal daily use, this person stood up a Spark cluster for a client so their employees get an internal, compliance-friendly LLM platform.
A cardiologist's referral system, fully air-gapped
Referral triage that extracts details, standardizes them, and suggests categories and tests — with the final call always left to a doctor, and nothing ever leaving the network.