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Any success stories using 7B/8B local LLMs with agent harnesses for serious work?

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Has anyone had good results using a 7B/8B local LLM with a well-designed agent harness, MCP/tools, RAG, memory, and validation/retry loops? Hardware: RTX 3070 Ti Laptop GPU 32 GB RAM I'm particularly interested in real-world use for things like coding, large projects, spreadsheets, document generat…

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  1. 2026-08-22 08:58 · r/LocalLLM
    Any success stories using 7B/8B local LLMs with agent harnesses for serious work?

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