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And also enshittify
At least code isn't a moat anymore. Have a weekend and want your own Discord? Doable.
Prove it.
LM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open models
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Re: LM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open models
#62Hey everyone! Yagil the founder of LM Studio here. If you want to take Bionic for a spin with GLM 5.2 / Kimi K2.6 / Kimi Coder K2.7, email your lmstudio.ai username to hn-jul16@lmstudio.ai and I'll load your account with some credits! Try it out for coding (in a "Code" project) and document creation / manipulation (in a "Work" project). In Work projects we have automatic checkpointing for every change the agent makes…
Yagil, thanks for the credits! Lots of fun to try running this locally. I don't understand the negativity in some of the other comments.
This is one of the better agent harnesses I've seen for inspecting reasoning chains, which is super useful for me. Sometimes reading the reasoning is better for my needs than reading the response. I appreciate how transparent that is in contrast with Claude Code/Codex/etc.
One question — I saw you mentioned negotiating ZDR with your "providers" — are you hosting the models yourselves, or is another entity hosting them? If another entity, which group?
Re: LM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open models
#63This kind of thing just makes me think Apple will get to a point where they have good enough local models and good enough harnesses for doing things, and most normal people will just use them… Does the LLM become another interface to computing?
based on their apple intelligence demos they are optimizing their products for their core demo of 55-95 year old boomers who talk out loud to think and read every page of the nytimes. you are miles away from the US consumer product experience here.
Re: LM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open models
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Ultimately, the onus at every VC backed local LLM startup is to launch a cloud based offering, because that's the only potential path in sight for venture scale returns.
For now, it seems that direction that lm studio is taking for enterprise market is "local ai deployment support". They recently launched "lm link" which basically uses tailscale to create e2ee connections between computers running lm studio where you are logged in. Granted one can also setup tailscale or their own vpn themselves and use llama-server, but I guess it is simpler to provide it out of the box. In any case…
> In any case I am not sure pivoting from running local models to "cloud offering" (as in providing llm inference at their severs) is a sensible choice granted there is already competition in that space and they have no leverage there.
I agree. Incidentally, this is exactly what ollama are doing too.
Re: LM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open models
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Does anyone know about their stack - is it a native app? It's fairly well designed for what it is in terms of desktop apps.
The desktop app's GUI is electron.js based.
Perfect for when you have unified memory and you want to use as much of it as possible for running the LLM.
Re: LM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open models
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some people want to make money, others want to improve social progress. Happy to clarify which is who and who is which.
No one involved in LLMs want to improve social progress. That is simply not part of the equasion.
Social progress is literally the story of labor saving devices. Creating more with less labor means a society of relative abundance, with more time for education, creativity, leisure and personal growth. Don't be fooled into thinking LLMs are any different to the tractor, the loom, the calculator, or shoe factories in the third world.
Re: LM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open models
#67This kind of thing just makes me think Apple will get to a point where they have good enough local models and good enough harnesses for doing things, and most normal people will just use them… Does the LLM become another interface to computing?
based on their apple intelligence demos they are optimizing their products for their core demo of 55-95 year old boomers who talk out loud to think and read every page of the nytimes. you are miles away from the US consumer product experience here.
Boomers were born up until 1965, so the youngest boomer is 61 this year.
Please don't slur us older GenX as boomers.
Re: LM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open models
#68I have never previously tried a agentic harness for local models yet, but I really love LM Studio so I gave Bionic a shot immediately after reading this!
First impression: it works great. I use Codex as my main agent, and the UI looks similar enough that it's familiar and simple to get started. I just pointed it to my existing LM Studio models library, ran Qwen3.6 35B, and the results are exactly what I would hope for.
I did notice some rough edges that might be worth improving, however:
- Current working directory is not the clearest on the main page of the app. It shows the project name, but is missing the prominent working directory label like Codex has. - The model seems to load when you hit Enter, but it shows "Working" instead of of "Loading model". - There doesn't seem to be a way to pre load the model, it seems like you have to send it something to load the model. - I don't see a way to easily unload the model like the eject button in LM Studio without quitting the app - I pointed it to a directory called "GitHub & Projects" and it somehow ended up making a new folder called "GitHub & Projects". Yes, I know the name is weird but it shouldn't have done that.
Re: LM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open models
#69This kind of thing just makes me think Apple will get to a point where they have good enough local models and good enough harnesses for doing things, and most normal people will just use them… Does the LLM become another interface to computing?
> Does the LLM become another interface to computing?
It already is.
Re: LM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open models
#70Hey everyone! Yagil the founder of LM Studio here. If you want to take Bionic for a spin with GLM 5.2 / Kimi K2.6 / Kimi Coder K2.7, email your lmstudio.ai username to hn-jul16@lmstudio.ai and I'll load your account with some credits! Try it out for coding (in a "Code" project) and document creation / manipulation (in a "Work" project). In Work projects we have automatic checkpointing for every change the agent makes…
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