Why Every Developer Should Run Local LLMs in 2026 The Cloud Bill Is Already Unsustainable Developers at mid-sized teams now face API costs that grew 340% between 2024 and 2025. Microsoft’s own internal telemetry showed engineering groups spending .8 million annually on GPT-4 calls alone before any optimization. Local inference on consumer-grade NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada cards cuts that line item to...