A local Claude-style app that actually sounds usable
What caught my attention is not the “free, open-source alternative” line. That pitch is everywhere now, and most of the time it means “a demo that happens to run on your machine if you don’t mind fiddling.” The part I’d actually want to test is the promise that Hob “picks the best frontier open-weight model that fits your computer and sets everything up for you.” If that works as advertised, that’s the whole game. Model choice is where local AI usually becomes annoying fast. I also like that the
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