never used it, probably not going to start now.
but realistically, this isn't really a question for that (or for claude or gemini). none of those is even remotely close to that type of chapstick/kleenex/bandaid mind share we're talking about -- and especially in the case of grok I don't want to give it any ideas haha.
I haven't used Grok either. I started with Chat GPT, moved to some local models, then used Claude, and now have settled on Gemini as being probably the objective best of the lot
i like gemini for translations, and things i don't want to waste GPT credits on. i like claude for working through programming problems that GPT stumbles on.
i am very interested in a local model though, i've looked into it very briefly but haven't taken the plunge yet. any decent resources to recommend for a tech savy newbie?
LM Studio is about as simple as it gets, you do need some GPU grunt. I've got a 4090 so VRAM isn't much of a problem, but you can use quantized models which are like using FP16 vs FP8 which lets you squeeze larger models into systems with less VRAM.
LM Studio can also offload to the system memory if you don't have a lot of VRAM.
It works on Windows and Linux just fine, I haven't tried it on MacOS, because why use my m2 macbook for such a task when I have far beefier hardware in my everyday PC.
I've worked with this stuff in a professional context, I find that Gemini is the best for code coherence. I only know Python (and a limited amount at that) - and it is pretty good at converting Python to Java, but not so good at using libraries like React, Django or etc, probably because I haven't asked it to!
awesome ty <3