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As demand for AI inference explodes, I’ll be asking a lot more of my little computer.

How much more?

Over the past five weeks, I’ve been using local models to see how much of my daily work I can accomplish without the trillion parameter models in the cloud. The answer is half.

If you classify these 1.4k tasks by category, half can succeed on a local 35B model. Email & Inbound, Scheduling, Summarization, & Admin total 618 tasks (41.8%). Market Research & Engineering split roughly 50/50 between simple tasks (data lookups, script fixes) and complex ones (multi-source synthesis, architectural decisions). That gets us to 50%.