I got into local LLMs because it seemed interesting, if I’m completely honest. Running my own AI on my own hardware seemed like something worth trying, and not because I had a specific gap to fill or strong feelings about data privacy at the time. The novelty was all the appeal at first. The privacy angle came a little later and more gradually, as I learned more about data privacy. There are some documents that I prefer not to hand over to the Google, OpenAI, or Anthropic servers at the moment, and once the local AI setup was working, it…