Hans Muns
Freelance .NET & Azure Engineer · Microsoft Certified Trainer at Backnook
Hans Muns is a freelance Software Engineer and Microsoft Certified Trainer at Backnook. As an engineer he designs, builds and implements software solutions mainly on the Microsoft stack — .NET, C# and Azure — and enjoys projects that solve real customer problems.
Alongside the engineering work he trains colleagues, peers and customers as an MCT, and he has spent the past year moving his own AI-assisted development workflow off the cloud and onto his own hardware.
How I Escaped the Token Bill and Moved to Local AI
Most engineers default to cloud AI without questioning the cost, the privacy trade-offs, or the dependency it creates — and the token bill grows with usage. How one freelancer moved an AI-assisted development workflow from 100% cloud to 90% local: the hardware, the models that actually perform, the honest downsides, and where cloud still wins.
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