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I Built a Coding Agent That Runs on a 1.7B Model

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I've been interested in local AI for a while, especially running AI models on hardware that isn't exactly a massive AI workstation. At some point, I started wondering: How useful could a coding agent be if it had to run on a tiny local model? So I decided to build one. That's how MINICODE started.…

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  1. 2026-10-02 08:41 · DEV Community — AI
    I Built a Coding Agent That Runs on a 1.7B Model

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