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Can You Self-Host an Efficient AI at Home or for your Company?

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Introduction This started with a simple goal: run a genuinely useful local LLM on a home setup with a 12GB GPU. On paper, that sounds like "pick a model and press run." In reality, it turned into a chain of very practical engineering trade-offs across hardware, runtime setup, memory limits, and model quality. This write-up is the path I took from first boot to a usable daily LLM. It goes through the messy parts first (driver issues, environment …
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DEV Community broke the news in on Thursday, February 12, 2026.
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