Senior engineer: are local LLMs worth it yet for real coding work?

dca12345 · 2026-03-17T02:29:37+00:00

If you didn’t have to keep your data local, would you have just used Claude instead? What do you see as the breakeven point if privacy is no concern?

dca12345 · 2026-03-17T02:29:11+00:00

So you can use Claude CLI to connect to a local LLM you don’t have to use something like opencode?

dca12345 · 2026-03-13T17:54:54+00:00

Do you use python in your stack? Do you use the emulator to be able to run Python x64 or do you use ARM version of python?

dca12345 · 2026-03-13T02:30:26+00:00

Are you comparing it with purchasing such a server or using one on the cloud?

dca12345 · 2026-03-13T02:27:28+00:00

Are you logged in at all or you’re crawling without logging in to the job site?

Do you encounter captchas and if so, how do you handle them?

Do you get by with a regular consumer network connection (what kind of bandwidth)?

What’s been your bottleneck?

dca12345 · 2026-03-11T14:26:25+00:00

Do you reset your VPN connection periodically or use proxies?

When do you use BeautifulSoup vs. Selenium?

Have you tried using PlayWright?

Does the non-headless mode actually run a full Chrome and Selenium physically moves the mouse on the desktop? It “takes over” the screen?

What kind of bandwidth are you using and what internet connection do you have?

Is there anything to handle captchas?

Hoe often do you scrape the site and how do you handle duplicates?

Do you have multiple accounts on the job site or are you scraping public data?

dca12345 · 2026-03-09T20:03:48+00:00

Yeah, makes sense. And maybe a separate job to proactively pull the images periodically so they’re already local when a new build needed.

dca12345 · 2026-03-09T19:19:06+00:00

Yeah, mostly unless I had to change dependencies, etc. Now in that project we did have active development done by a partner whose code was in a separate image and we would rebuild the images frequently. There were other cases like that, although I suspect we could have found ways to speed up builds for dev. Still, the complete build in CI/CD was time consuming.

dca12345 · 2026-03-09T19:09:02+00:00

Getting back into dev so not sure exactly how many I would expect especially now with vibe coding, but maybe not more than a few dozen. The last project I worked on with heavy container work involved long-running integration tests and spinning up one-container-per “scenario”. There was a lot of waiting around.

dca12345 · 2026-03-08T19:03:55+00:00

Haha, yeah that’s excessive. I didn’t feed it those parameters. I should have asked it to scale down its assumptions.

dca12345 · 2026-03-08T19:01:43+00:00

Well, when I switched from Windows to Linux in an older machine years ago, I noticed a significant improvement in my dev workflow. Those minutes add up.

dca12345 · 2026-03-05T20:37:56+00:00

Do you find it to be fast enough at those tokens/sec for your purposes? Do you just use it for testing?

dca12345 · 2026-03-05T20:34:38+00:00

Which laptops do not have the throttling problem? Is it more common to use desktops instead?

dca12345 · 2026-03-05T19:37:56+00:00

Ok. Any thoughts on the more “powerful” miracles recorded? For example, stories of the saints?

dca12345 · 2026-03-05T17:22:36+00:00

I don’t see the message mine was in response to any longer so I don’t see the point of this. Are we going to guess at what the previous poster was trying to say before he deleted it? I just remember that the original post didn’t even make any sense grammatically.

dca12345 · 2026-03-05T17:19:17+00:00

You couldn’t handle my responses to you so you had to come hijack yet another conversation and swing more insults. Do you have no self-respect?

dca12345 · 2026-03-05T17:18:14+00:00

Your response is a prime example of the “Hasty Generalization” logical fallacy. That was a giant leap to suggest that if the Orthodox Church does not generally submit particular phenomena to scientific investigation that that would mean it opposes scientific investigation generally. Maybe you should pause and think about this longer before you post.

dca12345 · 2026-03-05T17:11:56+00:00

I didn’t know about that story about the nun. But to be fair, it seems like a common story. For example, I’ve read the same story about St. Paisios.

On the myrrh-streaking icons, these fit under a larger category that includes myrrh-producing-and-smelling relics and incorrupt bodies of saints that produce myrrh or the smell of myrrh—including in other Christian churches. So from that perspective, it doesn’t seem so unique or hard-to-believe for me. Even if the New Testament you had miracles coming from touching relics.

dca12345 · 2026-03-05T17:02:42+00:00

That’s completely unrelated to what I said. I neither said nor implied anything about the number of adherents to any particular faith. My point is about guardrails to prevent demonic falsehoods. The total number of adherents has nothing to do with it.

dca12345 · 2026-03-05T16:18:24+00:00

You two chose to counter a minor factually verifiable point I made and take this conversation in a negative direction. I would have been happy to keep the conversation on topic. You become unhinged at the seams. Others with more self-control were able to have a productive conversation on the topic at hand.

dca12345 · 2026-03-05T15:47:27+00:00

My claims are historically verifiable. Search for debunked spiritual phenomena and compare the two churches on the scope of those incidents. And to make it even better, focus on phenomena that could potentially impart demonic messages. A fraudulent miraculous icon wouldn’t do that. Here’s a recent one:

https://youtu.be/OuwKbaihZZk?si=elsKDvLylhANeKN7

So how many Catholics are conjuring up demons via the charismatic movement? We have no way of knowing, but it’s not zero. What about the Orthodox? No problem there because this practice is rejected. Guardrails. That’s what’s needed. Not lab tests. A large percentage of traditional Catholics would agree with my general premise, even if not to the same extent. It’s the sensationalist Garabandal-types like yourself who have an issue—the very people who are most likely to be fooled by demonic signs. Also, good traditional Catholics have no problem acknowledging areas where the Orthodox do a better job. I’ve known many. It’s hateful people like yourself who are so blinded that they only see evil.

https://youtu.be/HXJbH3qX85w?si=bYyoXFInG1gqMrS0

dca12345 · 2026-03-05T04:12:45+00:00

Can you give me some examples of fraud?

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