Claude Code like agentic workflow ai too costly for me.Any LLM can I run with VSCode at the below setup?
16ram
Intel core i7 h processor 13gen
512gb NVMe SSD
I want to run the ai as local agentic workflow with Vscode.I want use LLAMA agent to build it.
I have tried Gemma3 270M, Qwen3.5 4bit ,they are fast but less coding focused.
I will be grateful for your response.
Thank you.
Ask HN: Any Local LLM can I run without GPU for Local Agentic workflow AI?
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Re: Ask HN: Any Local LLM can I run without GPU for Local Agentic workflow AI?
#2Try qwen3-coder or qwen3-coder-next models which fit into your configuration. This is team-of-experts model which may load only actual experts into GPU.
Re: Ask HN: Any Local LLM can I run without GPU for Local Agentic workflow AI?
#3Try qwen3-coder or qwen3-coder-next models which fit into your configuration. This is team-of-experts model which may load only actual experts into GPU.
Thanks for your reply.
But it's to big for my PC.
In PC around 1.5GB models got 20 token/s , which is too low for agentic workflow.
Re: Ask HN: Any Local LLM can I run without GPU for Local Agentic workflow AI?
#4Try qwen3-coder or qwen3-coder-next models which fit into your configuration. This is team-of-experts model which may load only actual experts into GPU.
Thanks for your reply. But it's to big for my PC. In PC around 1.5GB models got 20 token/s , which is too low for agentic workflow.
try latest gemma4:12b. It fits into 16Gb with 256K context window
Re: Ask HN: Any Local LLM can I run without GPU for Local Agentic workflow AI?
#5how about opencode's go ( https://opencode.ai/go ) it is very cost effective and the models are surprisingly competent....
Re: Ask HN: Any Local LLM can I run without GPU for Local Agentic workflow AI?
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