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Ask HN: Are small local LLMs good at coding?

2•usermac•1h ago
I deal with the professional LLMs, of course, but I'm really intrigued by the possibility of local coding offline. I've got a MacBook Air M4 16gb. Does it have any chance at all of doing coding? NOTE: I am not too worried about the context window because the way I work is very targeted and surgical. I'll have it look at one file and have it do something very exact to that file.

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benchwright•50m ago
They can be. I've done some drift detection work against local models and for the most part, they do ok. I think there's always room for an augmented approach where local models can handle programmatic parsing and structure and large models can handle actual coding routines. I try to use witness coding using local+api where possible to see if there's capabilities that can be caught one side or the other.

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