Wondering about services to test on either a 16gb ram “AI Capable” arm64 board or on a laptop with modern rtx. Only looking for open source options, but curious to hear what people say. Cheers!

  • L_Acacia@lemmy.ml
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    21 hours ago

    Their software is pretty nice. That’s what I’d recommand to someone who doesn’t want to tinker. It’s just a shame they don’t want to open source their software and we have to reinvent the wheel 10 times. If you are willing to tinker a bit koboldcpp + openewebui/librechat is a pretty nice combo.

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      17 hours ago

      That koboldcpp is pretty interesting. Looks like I can load a draft model for spec decode as well as a pile of other things.

      What local models have you been using for coding? I’ve been disappointed with things like deepseek-coder and the qwen-coder, it’s not even a patch on Claude, but that damn cost for anthropic has been killing me.

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        4 hours ago

        As much as I’d like to praise the open-weight models. Nothing comes close to Claude sonnet in my experience too. I use local models when info are sensitive and claude when the problem requires being somewhat competent.

        What setup do you use for coding? I might have a tip for minimizing claude cost you depending on what your setup is.