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Best Local Coding LLM for a 24GB M5 Pro MacBook?

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Hey everyone, I have an M5 Pro MacBook Pro with 24GB memory and want to start running LLMs locally, mainly for coding. Has anyone here had good experience running local models on a 24GB Mac? What model + runtime would you recommend for the best balance of coding ability, speed, and memory usage? I’…

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