Hi folks! Is anyone working with local llms? I figured that milage might vary but most of my experience has been in vs code with cline using Claude's Sonnet. I'm curious about whether people are preferring Cursor or Windsurf, and if anyone is developing locally using something like LM studio and Continue with VScode? Or directly with Claude Code and what your experience has been like? My concern is around data privacy, I prefer to build locally and then release to prod, but I'm wondering what folks workflow preferences look like.

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"Large language models (LLMs) are often praised for exhibiting near-human performance on a wide range of tasks and valued for their ability to hold a general conversation. The rise of agentic AI systems is, however, ushering in a mass of applications in which language models perform a small number of specialized tasks repetitively and with little variation. Here we lay out the position that small language models (SLMs) are sufficiently powerful, inherently more suitable, and necessarily more economical for many invocations in agentic systems, and are therefore the future of agentic AI. Our argumentation is grounded in the current level of capabilities exhibited by SLMs, the common architectures of agentic systems, and the economy of LM deployment. We further argue that in situations where general-purpose conversational abilities are essential, heterogeneous agentic systems (i.e., agents invoking multiple different models) are the natural choice. We discuss the potential barriers for the adoption of SLMs in agentic systems and outline a general LLM-to-SLM agent conversion algorithm." https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02153v1