Every "run a local model instead of Claude Code" guide opens the same way: a wall of SWE-bench scores, a triumphant "we're within five points of the frontier," and a shopping list of GPUs. I've read a dozen of them and run most of the setups. They're not wrong, exactly. They're measuring the thing that's easy to measure instead of the thing that decides whether you can actually close your Claude Code tab. Here's the version nobody puts in the headline, after pointing Claude Code and Codex a...