What I got wrong about AI
Models that run on your laptop are good enough now for the daily stuff, and they don't ship your data anywhere.
Local AI is the trend nobody at the demo notices. Models that run on your laptop are good enough now for the daily stuff, and they don't ship your data anywhere. For most people that's the better deal and they don't know it exists.
I'm not claiming this is true for everyone. It's true for me, and the version I'd tell a friend is shorter than the marketing version.
The pushback I get is always the same, and it's usually right at the edges, not the center. The center holds: the boring practice beats the clever one most days.
If you take one thing from this, let it be the unglamorous part. The flashy bit is what gets demos; the plain bit is what gets used.