Real-world performance of an AMD AI Max 395+ "AI PC" across a range of LLMs, from 3B to 120B.
Behind ChatGPT’s friendly interface lies an unsustainable economic model.
Benchmarks on a Strix Halo Framework Desktop show why local AI tops out at medium models today, not frontier cloud flagships.
GPT-5.5 may be better, but its pricing changes how developers should use frontier models in real coding workflows.
As frontier models get expensive, developers need to route tasks by risk, complexity, and cost instead of using one model for everything.
Valérian de Thézan de Gaussan 
