Agreed. It’s definitely been fun playing locally, learning, fine tuning, etc, but these models just don’t quite cut it for serious development tasks (yet, and assuming none of the above considerations apply). I haven’t found better than Gemini 2.5 for my work so far.
1. Sovereignty over data, your outputs can't be stolen or trained on
2. Just for fun / learning / experiment on
3. Avoid detection that you're using AI
4. No Internet connection, in the woods at your cabin or something