Tooling
Local LLMs Need Web Access—But Search APIs Aren't Built for It
Developers running Llama 3 locally are hitting a wall: search APIs return snippets too thin for language models to reason over. Self-hosted alternatives like SearXNG work but introduce operational burden.
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Sourcer/localllama
Local language model deployments have crossed a threshold. Developers are no longer content to run Llama 3 70B in isolation—they want real-time web access, function calling, and the ability to ground responses in current information. But the tooling ecosystem hasn't caught up to this shift.
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