Conclusion: r/LocalLLaMA still has brilliant open-weight research, but finding it requires wading through endless benchmark drama, non-local Discussion Points and repetitive hardware flexes.

I let Gemma4-31b run on my laptop for like almost a day using a heavily altered pi to do a deep dive on our beloved Llama tangentially related Subreddit, and this was the conclusion.

Feels pretty accurate. Kind funny to let a small LLM loose and see what happens.

Next target I'm trying to let it steal some benchmark answers from Huggingface, wish me luck.