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by mark_l_watson 3 days ago
Thanks apfel looks useful! I have been experimenting with Apple's foundation models for almost a year and they are useful for embedded applications. I have been taking a deeper dive into local agentic coding tools (starting with 'little-coder --model ollama/gemma4:12b-it-qat') and I put together a tiny free book with some setup advice that might save people a few minutes of setup time: https://leanpub.com/read/local-coding-agents

I have been fairly much pissed off at the "hype in hyperscaler" AI growth (data center environmental and other societal costs) and I support anything we can do to promote local and private AI.