You're paying anywhere from $20 to $200 a month for access to LLMs. Claude, GPT, Gemini, whatever. And most of the calls you're making from your scripts and dev tools boil down to something like this: "Classify this bug into one of these five categories" "Name this variable for me" "Tell me if this commit is a fix , feat , or refactor " "Summarize this block of text in two sentences" Meanwhile, your Apple Silicon Mac has a 3-billion-parameter language model baked right in, integrated with the operating system. No cost, no internet needed, no API key, no network latency. And you're probably not using it at all. The Foundation Models Framework With macOS 26 (Tahoe), Apple unlocked access to the model that powers Apple Intelligence via the Foundation Models framework . It’s a native Swift framework, available on macOS 26, iOS 26, and iPadOS 26—on any Apple Silicon device that supports Apple Intelligence. What’s remarkable isn’t just that it’s free (though that’s nice).…