Running local models is good now

Local AI models have reached a practical maturity level, with recent releases like Google's Gemma 4 family now capable of handling agentic coding tasks at approximately 75% the accuracy and speed of frontier models. The author demonstrates that local models can now successfully perform complex development tasks—such as code refactoring, writing unit tests, and bootstrapping repositories—which were impossible just six months prior, making them viable for personalized development assistance without relying on API-based services.