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Local LLM coding agents on a 24GB Mac — worth it or should I just use frontier models?

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I've been experimenting with running coding agents locally and I'm starting to wonder if I'm forcing local LLMs into a job they're just not good enough for yet. My setup: M4 Pro MacBook Pro, 24GB RAM Ollama/MLX running the model natively Codex CLI inside Docker Project folder mounted into Docker as…

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  1. 2026-08-24 04:53 · r/LocalLLM
    Local LLM coding agents on a 24GB Mac — worth it or should I just use frontier models?

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