Totally! This with DwarfStar delivers usable local AI (I hope!)
Parent is referring to https://github.com/antirez/ds4
What are your goalposts? Depending on your requirements, there have been many moments of usable local AI. More recent ones were gpt-oss 120b and Qwen 3.6 27b.
Usable local AI has been here for a while, esp on say a 5090.
You can’t treat Qwen3.6 like its fable, but if you prompt precisely and specifically it’s a great executor.
I actually found it refreshing to use more of my brain for once, and actually have to think deeper about what I’m trying to do, and how to build it.