i have a 128gb m4 max macbook pro i've been wanting to tinker with this stuff but genuinely never find the time. any mac users in here running similar to the above that can share their experience?

i always see great debates with local stuff but the space is constantly moving goalposts and all the vernacular is pretty unfamiliar to me. i'd love to understand what people with objective experience feel they've traded away (or gained) when going local so i can determine for myself if these things are a good fit.

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brycesub 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

If you have a 128GB Mac you really ought to try out: https://github.com/antirez/ds4 by the creator of redis. This is probably as close to it gets to state-of-the-art local LLM + agentic coding.

	▲	__mharrison__ an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Using this just this morning on my DGX Spark. A little slower than frontier models but my $200/mo weekly usage exhausted with 3 days left on the week... (Shouldn't have done that refactoring job in high mode)
	▲	trueno 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		well this is supremely interesting thanks for putting it on my radar
	▲	lostlogin 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Thank you.

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htrp 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Use your ClaudeCode sub and tell it to set it up for you

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dirkolbrich an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

I have the same machine. You might look into https://omlx.ai/ a „macOS-native MLX server“. pi.dev for the agent with MCP, web-search and sub-agents extension.