Most local models can't actually drive a coding agent. I built a harness that grades them, and an agent to go with it.
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I spent a few months trying to get local models to do real agentic coding work and the single biggest surprise was how much variance there is between models that benchmark similarly. A model can score well on HumanEval and still be useless in a loop, because holding a plan across turns and emitting…
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