Where the Model Runs: A Decision Framework for On-Device vs Cloud AI in Consumer Apps
"On-device or cloud?" sounds like an infrastructure question you answer once, in a design doc, and forget. In a consumer app it is neither one-time nor abstract. It is a decision your code makes again
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Kartik N V J K
AI Developer | Making AI reliable, trustworthy & accessible to everyone | Active community contributor
On-device vs cloud changes the eval surface entirely. Local models need latency/energy rubrics; cloud needs cost/availability. Different harness.