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Your local coding agent might be doing nothing at all

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You run a coding agent against a local model like for example qwen2.5-coder on Ollama, because it's a solid coder and it fits on your GPU. You give it a task, it thinks for a bit, prints a plausible-looking summary of what it did, and stops. Except it didn't do anything. No files changed. The agent…

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  1. 2026-09-29 12:30 · DEV Community — AI
    Your local coding agent might be doing nothing at all

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