This person's local usage is geared to hardware hobbies. Rather than struggling with C/C++ syntax for ESP32, STM32, Teensy, Arduino and Raspberry Pi projects, they let a local model write the sketches and then actually program the device: it gets a terminal and a COM device, finds the board, opens SSH, pushes the sketch with ESP-IDF or the board's toolchain, then watches the load and the serial output after boot and reports on events. When the owner describes screen-alignment or colour problems in words, the model corrects them, and the human does the final visual check.
At work, in a tech company, they and a colleague use a local model for the analysis and classification portion of a resource-intensive ticket-analysis engine. The plan still comes from Claude or ChatGPT, but the high-volume API work was becoming infeasible at frontier token prices, so sorting and classifying against a ticket-description database runs locally instead.
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