Local LLM vs Claude Code: 96% of My Requests Failed Locally. Half the Steps Didn't.
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Local LLM vs Claude Code: 96% of My Requests Failed Locally. Half the Steps Didn't.

The pitch for running Claude Code on a local model goes like this: point it at Ollama, stop paying per token, keep your code on your machine. I have an RTX 4070 with qwen3.5:4b on it, so I wanted that to be true. Before swapping anything, I counted. I took 100 requests I had actually sent to Claude Code and asked, for each one, whether a local model could have done it end to end. 96 could not. So much for cancelling the subscription. Then I counted a different way, and the answer flip...
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