Local LLM topics are a treadmill of “what’s best and what is preferred” changing basically weekly to monthly, it’s a rapidly evolving field, but right now I actually tend to gravitate to Gemma2 9b for coding assistance for Typescript work or general question and answer stuff. Its embedded knowledge and speed on the computers that I have (32GB M2 Max, 16GB M1 Air, 4080 gaming desktop) make for a good balance while also using the computer for other stuff, bigger models limit what else I can run simultaneously and are slower than my reading speed, smaller models have less utility and the speed increase is pointless if they’re dumb.
