The Art and your local LLM feels dumber than Claude

When discussing Claude vs. Codex, etc. I find it appalling without any evidence. It's nothing but a conjecture. Most of the time when a local model feels dumb its not the quant, its the chat template. a lot of people working through exactly that problem. Im trying to do my part in the world is a 2-hour trip down the road while everyone else is an ocean apart. This has a risk for long-term price pain for decades.