I ran local LLMs on my phone for a week, and now my desktop setup feels like overkill
An experiment running local LLMs on an iPhone for a week revealed surprisingly strong performance, nearly matching desktop capabilities for tasks like chat and brainstorming. While smaller context windows and document processing were limitations, the author found their desktop setup to be overkill for most daily AI needs, increasingly preferring their phone. AI
IMPACT Demonstrates the growing feasibility of running capable LLMs on mobile devices, potentially shifting user interaction patterns away from traditional desktop setups for everyday AI tasks.