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I Ditched Cloud LLMs for Gemma 4 4B: A DevOps Engineer's 48-Hour Reality Check

Local AI isn't just about privacy — it's about architecture. Here's what happened when I moved my daily DevOps workflows off the cloud.

The $847 Question

Last Tuesday, my manager asked a deceptively simple question: "How much are we spending on AI APIs this month?"