anon. if you want into local ai and don't know where to start, here it is.
grab a used rtx 3090. six years old, 24gb of vram, still the best value per dollar in the game. load qwen3.6 27b dense at q4. that pairing is the king of the card, and i'll stand on that.
that one setup gets you a real build companion and retires a subscription or two. your ai bill becomes your electricity bill.