[EagnaIonat]

> thers, like coding or more advanced agentic workflows can demand much more powerful models.

You can do coding and agentic fine. For coding I use qwen3.6:35b-mlx and agentic granite4.1:3b works fine.

These are the models I use.

- granite4.1:3b

- granite4.1:30b

- gpt-oss:20b

- gpt-oss:120b (less so now)

- mistral-small3.2

- qwen3.6:35b-mlx

There will always be use cases that don't sit on your laptop, but most of what can be done can be done locally, it just requires a good framework to sit on it.

[packetlost]

Why do you like gpt-oss-120b less now? What replaced it?

[aftbit]

It's very likely to hallucinate. I'm mostly using Gemma 4 31B now when I need something offline. It is a very strong model for its size.