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Tag: Local-Models
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Jul 2026
Local-First LLM Routing - Use Small Models for Easy Questions and Cloud Models for Hard Ones
A practical guide to building a local-first LLM gateway that sends simple queries to local models and escalates harder work to remote frontier models.