Redditor says local-AI setup cost him a job

A LocalLLaMA user says he was cut from a VC-backed AI company's hiring process after telling the co-founder he runs Qwen locally on a GPU. He acknowledges the 15-minute call may have failed for other reasons and offers it only as anecdata.

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