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Who uses, recommends or left LM Studio, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

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Co-founder of WordPress and founder of Automattic; blogs at ma.tt.
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The easiest way to feel this for yourself is to run one locally tonight: install Ollama or LM Studio, pull a small Qwen model, and talk to an intelligence that lives entirely on your own machine, no cloud required.

Post giving WordPress community members a reading/homework list on AI after a WordCamp keynote

2026-08-20·ma.tt ↗

Machine learning engineer working on recommender systems, personalization and information retrieval; previously at Mozilla.ai, Duo, Tumblr and Automattic, and author of the 'What are embeddings?' text.
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For my local setup, I'm currently using Pi as the agent harness and LM Studio as the inference server

'Running local models is good now' — the local models and harnesses she runs on an M2 Mac.

2026-06-15·vickiboykis.com ↗

Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.

The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.

A dashed affiliate link, sponsored or their own label means the post disclosed a relationship. It is shown, never hidden.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Fully green is recent. It drains a quarter at a time as the post gets older, and is empty once it reads as dated.

What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The shading is gone after about:

Stripes mean the post carries no date and the date shown is an estimate. No date at all, no shading.