Perspectives

Essays and analysis on local AI: the economics, the trade-offs, and how getting value from your own hardware changes the way you work. Written by Leon Mallett, who builds local-AI software and reports what he finds first-hand.

• The night shift: getting the most from local AI means changing when you work

  9 November 2026 · By Leon Mallett

  Local models on your own hardware have a different cost shape to cloud AI: cheap to run, but slower to answer. The people getting the most from them have quietly stopped treating AI as a conversation and started treating some of it as work they queue.

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