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Benchmarked where to run my AI coding agent: laptop vs. co-located with the LLM server. Co-location was ~33% faster

I've been curious whether it matters where you run an AI coding agent (the "harness") — on your own laptop, or on the same machine that's serving the model. I ran a small controlled benchmark. Spoiler: it matters a lot for total time, but it does not make the model itself faster or slower. The setu…

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  1. 2026-09-22 08:49 · r/LocalLLM
    Benchmarked where to run my AI coding agent: laptop vs. co-located with the LLM server. Co-location was ~33% faster

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