I Ditched Cloud LLMs for Gemma 4 4B: A DevOps Engineer's 48-Hour Reality Check
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This is a submission for the Gemma 4 Challenge: Write About Gemma 4 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?" I opened the dashboard. $847. For log summarization, Terraform config reviews, and the