𝗖𝗟𝗢𝗨𝗗𝗙𝗟𝗔𝗥𝗘 𝗝𝗨𝗦𝗧 𝗕𝗥𝗢𝗞𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗡𝗘𝗧 (𝗡𝗢𝗧 𝗜𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗚𝗢𝗢𝗗 𝗪𝗔𝗬)–𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗘𝗫𝗣𝗢𝗦𝗘𝗗 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗘𝗟𝗘𝗣𝗛𝗔𝗡𝗧 𝗜𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗥𝗢𝗢𝗠
- candyandgrim
- Dec 5, 2025
- 2 min read
This morning the web blinked.
Cloudflare went for a nap, and suddenly half my toolkit (Claude, Perplexity, Midjourney, the lot) vanished behind 504 errors.
Deadline? Still looming. Stress levels? Through the roof.
It was the loudest reminder yet that almost every “revolutionary” AI creative tool lives on someone else’s server.
𝗡𝗼 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘁 = 𝗻𝗼 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸. 𝗙𝘂𝗹𝗹 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗽.
Meanwhile, my high spec M4 Apple Macbook Pro Studio AND Alienware R13 + 3090 GPU sat there purring, perfectly capable of running Flux, Llama 3.1 405B, SD3, or AnimateDiff faster than most cloud queues – completely offline, completely unlimited, completely unbothered by CDN meltdowns.
Yet the polished, native, easy to install desktop apps that could turn our £3k–£7k machines into private infinite studios simply… don’t exist (outside the heroic but arcane depths of ComfyUI).
The excuses are wearing thin:
• “Cloud is cheaper to scale”
→ My hardware is already paid for. Paying £20–£200/month to rent slower silicon feels like lighting money on fire.
• “Frontier models need the cloud”
→ 2024’s open-source quantised models already deliver 95 % of paid work. Clients don’t care if it’s GPT-5 or Llama 405B if the final asset makes them cry happy tears.
• “Credits are fine”
→ Maybe for images, but for video 4000 monthly credits that buy roughly seven short gen-ai videos before you’re begging for mercy. Unlimited local beats metered anxiety every single time. Very few platforms offer unlimited credit packages, Runway is one of the exceptions.
And here’s the bit nobody is shipping yet but everyone wants: a beautiful native app that silently networks every idle Mac, PC, or server in the studio into a zero-config render farm. Your partner’s gaming rig in the spare room? Now it’s earning its keep.
We’ve reached the absurd point where our laptops are more powerful than most cloud instances we rent – and we’re still treated like dumb terminals with credit cards.
So, to every founder reading this:
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽𝘀 𝗮 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘂𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗹𝘆 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗱, 𝗼𝗳𝗳𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲-𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁, 𝗻𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸-𝗮𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘀𝘂𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗦𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗼𝗻 (𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗪𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗼𝘄𝘀) 𝘄𝗼𝗻’𝘁 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝗻 𝗮 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁 𝘀𝗲𝗴𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁.
𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘆’𝗹𝗹 𝗹𝗶𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗲𝘀, 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗹𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗼𝗳 “𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘂𝗲 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝟴,𝟰𝟳𝟯”.
My Mac is ready.
My patience is not.
Who’s building it? Tag them below – the age of unlimited, outage-proof creativity is overdue.
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