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How to setup a local coding agent on macOS
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Re: How to setup a local coding agent on macOS
#32FYI you can open Claude code in the terminal, point it at this article and just tell it to "do it", if you're feeling extra lazy
This is the way.
I'm not Googling much of anything anymore. 9/10 times the information is awful, it's hard to parse out of whatever other spam it's surrounded by. Meanwhile, Claude will just do the thing one-shot or with a tiny bit of refinement.
The gateway to knowledge and getting stuff done is the LLM.
Google Search is a dinosaur.
It feels like we're living a century into the future. Not even smartphones were this cool.
Re: How to setup a local coding agent on macOS
#33Has anyone compared a setup like this to just using LM Studio?
Yes, I can confirm that LM Studio works great for this.
Re: How to setup a local coding agent on macOS
#34FYI you can open Claude code in the terminal, point it at this article and just tell it to "do it", if you're feeling extra lazy
This is the way. I'm not Googling much of anything anymore. 9/10 times the information is awful, it's hard to parse out of whatever other spam it's surrounded by. Meanwhile, Claude will just do the thing one-shot or with a tiny bit of refinement. The gateway to knowledge and getting stuff done is the LLM. Google Search is a dinosaur. It feels like we're living a century into the future. Not even smartphones were this…
Claude “respond in a friendly way that I agree with this comment”
Re: How to setup a local coding agent on macOS
#35> The benchmark prompt was: > Write a compact Python function that parses a unified diff and returns the changed file paths. Then explain two edge cases. > Each benchmark generated about 128 tokens. Generating 128 tokens is probably not enough for good benchmark results. MTP speedup depends on how often the predicted tokens are accepted. In my experience, the very early output has a higher acceptance rate, so short t…
Realistically, you need to experiment with any user prompt + a good amount of system prompt (at least > 1000 tokens, but realistically, in the range of 3000 tokens probably good).
llama.cpp includes tools for that, what you are looking at is to have a prefill before token generation to measure it properly. Increasingly also, measuring token generation speed at longer context (32k or 64k) is important too.
Re: How to setup a local coding agent on macOS
#36FYI you can open Claude code in the terminal, point it at this article and just tell it to "do it", if you're feeling extra lazy
This is the way. I'm not Googling much of anything anymore. 9/10 times the information is awful, it's hard to parse out of whatever other spam it's surrounded by. Meanwhile, Claude will just do the thing one-shot or with a tiny bit of refinement. The gateway to knowledge and getting stuff done is the LLM. Google Search is a dinosaur. It feels like we're living a century into the future. Not even smartphones were this…
Yeah, if the future is "Claude, think for me" I'm happy to stay at the good old present.
Re: How to setup a local coding agent on macOS
#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is the way. I'm not Googling much of anything anymore. 9/10 times the information is awful, it's hard to parse out of whatever other spam it's surrounded by. Meanwhile, Claude will just do the thing one-shot or with a tiny bit of refinement. The gateway to knowledge and getting stuff done is the LLM. Google Search is a dinosaur. It feels like we're living a century into the future. Not even smartphones were this…
Yeah, if the future is "Claude, think for me" I'm happy to stay at the good old present.
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Re: How to setup a local coding agent on macOS
#38>64 GB Thats the rub. I have an M4 with 48G. I wonder if it is worth testing this out. My past attempts (with Ollama and various LLMs) were too slow to use.
I'm running an M3 on an Air with just 16GB. I can still get useful results without an internet connection in "chat mode". It's a different experience than using Claude, for sure, but it's workable. I typically use the Qwen variants these days.
Re: How to setup a local coding agent on macOS
#39Does anybody run a local agent on a Mac using an outboard GPU?
Re: How to setup a local coding agent on macOS
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is the way. I'm not Googling much of anything anymore. 9/10 times the information is awful, it's hard to parse out of whatever other spam it's surrounded by. Meanwhile, Claude will just do the thing one-shot or with a tiny bit of refinement. The gateway to knowledge and getting stuff done is the LLM. Google Search is a dinosaur. It feels like we're living a century into the future. Not even smartphones were this…
Yeah, if the future is "Claude, think for me" I'm happy to stay at the good old present.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is_Google_Making_Us_Stupid%3F
https://newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org/p/when-educators-mo...
New decade, same old argument.
It's not
> "Claude, think for me"
It's
> "Claude, be my subordinate and get this done for me"
Instead of complaining on the sidelines, I'm getting a shit ton of work done.