We have a few dgx sparks in the office that are gathering dust right now because nobody wants to bother with them (and because IT doesn’t allow them on the network because Linux is scary so they’re a pain to get set up).

Matching the level of productivity of frontier models on the local models is possible to a limited degree (depending on the exact task), but takes getting used to. For the local models you have to lean into the fact that tokens are ‘free’ so its fine to burn a lot of them. (Whereas with frontier models the recommendation is to take a higher model for complex tasks because a lower would take more tries to get it right)