Security is not a concern for the purpose of my question here, please ignore that for now. I'm just looking for text summary and search functionality here, not looking to give it full system access and let it loose on my computer or network. I can easily set up VM/sandboxing/airgapping/etc. as needed.

My question is really just about what can handle that volume of data (ideally, with the quoted sections/duplications/etc. that come with email chains) and still produce useful (textual) output.

Thanks for sharing this, it's super helpful. I have a question if you don't mind: I want a model that I can feed, say, my entire email mailbox to, so that I can ask it questions later. (Just the text content, which I can clean and preprocess offline for its use.) Have any offline models you've dealt with seemed suitable for that sort of use case, with that volume of content?

I'm pretty sure I read that at some point they started still allowing updates on metered connections, just slower or more critical or something.

> I'm sorry but this is simply false. Nothing has really changed on the ground for SWEs. Nothing at all. Compensation is still sky high. Interviews are still the same. Career progression is the same. Everything takes the same amount of time.

That's not remotely what I'm hearing or seeing from those who are on the job market.