How To Choose Between Two Local Models Without Guessing
A bigger model is not automatically the better one for rewriting. A fifteen minute test using your own writing that settles it properly.
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A bigger model is not automatically the better one for rewriting. A fifteen minute test using your own writing that settles it properly.
Read article →Local models do not auto-update, which is a feature. When a new version is worth the download, how to test it against your own writing, and when to skip it.
Read article →Marketing pages say on-device. Here are four checks that tell you whether a tool actually processes your text locally, and what a truthful claim sounds like.
Read article →A large unsigned download, a process pinning the CPU, and an app that writes gigabytes to your profile. Why security software objects, and how to tell a false alarm from a real one.
Read article →The first local rewrite is slow, the download is large, and nothing explains why. A walkthrough of each step so you can tell normal from broken.
Read article →Snapdragon laptops run local models, but not the way x86 machines do. What works today, what is still missing, and which tools quietly refuse to start.
Read article →Vendor privacy pages are written to reassure. Five specific questions that produce answers you can act on, and what an evasive response tells you.
Read article →Model size is the obvious answer and usually the wrong one. The four things that decide how long a local rewrite takes, ranked by how much they matter.
Read article →Detection scores are being used to make decisions about people. What the tools actually measure, why they misfire on specific groups, and how to respond to an accusation.
Read article →Private mode rarely means nothing is recorded. The six categories of data most AI tools keep regardless, and which ones actually matter for confidential work.
Read article →Open weights is not open source, not a promise of privacy, and not a licence to do anything. What the term actually covers, and the four things people wrongly assume.
Read article →Not every AI-assisted sentence needs a footnote. Where disclosure is genuinely required, where it is courtesy, and how to say it without undermining the work.
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