You Don’t Need a GPU. You Need Constraints.
Running serious local AI on a Mac M2 with 16GB isn’t just possible β it’s strategically superior for latency-sensitive, privacy-focused work. By ruthlessly applying quantization, choosing the smallest effective models, and treating hardware constraints as creative catalysts, you can build an AI setup that outperforms cloud APIs on the metrics that actually matter: speed, privacy, and cost. The constraint is the strategy.