Over the past few weeks, I’ve been experimenting with local language models. Like a lot of developers, I’ve used cloud AI assistants quite a bit, but I kept asking myself one simple question: Can a local LLM actually help me build a real, production-ready project? So I decided to find out for myself. I challenged myself to build an entire developer tools website using only a local AI model running on my own machine. No cloud assistant. No external API. Just my laptop, VS Code, Ollam...