Why Local AI Changes Software Design More Than Most Developers Realize

This is a submission for the Gemma 4 Challenge: Write About Gemma 4 Why I Wrote This Most conversations around AI models focus on benchmarks. But while exploring Gemma 4, I became more interested in a different question: What happens when powerful AI becomes deployable almost anywhere? That question feels much bigger than a single model release. For a long time, most developers have quietly accepted one assumption: Powerful AI belongs in the cloud. Need intelligence? Send requests to an API. Nee