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The author swaps ChatGPT Plus, Cursor and Midjourney for local AI on a 14″ MacBook Pro M5 Max. Two setups failed; a third ran locally by day nine and convinced him to re-subscribe.
- CUDA is irrelevant on Apple Silicon, yet the author describes "CUDA fallbacks" as part of the local setup overhead—an inconsistency suggesting the account may be unreliable
- Local LLMs (Qwen, Mistral) hit memory bottlenecks and slow inference on long prompts, even on an M5 Max
- Local Stable Diffusion couldn't match Midjourney's compositional consistency and prompt refinement, driving a resubscription
- Cursor's extension ecosystem proved hard to replicate locally, undermining the coding-assistant replacement
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