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A weaker local model made my PRs better

I work at a bank, so cloud AI is off the table for work code anyway. I've been running small models on my own M4 16GB through Magnitude for side stuff, and honestly it changed how I think about this. On my side projects with Claude or Cursor, the model writes 300 lines, it looks right, I skim it an…

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  1. 2026-11-06 11:34 · r/LocalLLM
    A weaker local model made my PRs better

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