My local agentic dev setup today

My local agentic dev setup today April 29, 2026 by Willem van den Ende pi.dev llamacpp mlx ai I was planning to write about my local development setup at my leisure. Moving this forward as my post on LinkedIn the other day about cancelling my Claude Max $100 plan and going local raised a lot more interest and questions than I expected. This post attempts to answer the question: What hardware do you run, what software do you use (inference server and coding agent), and which models do you use?. I have put links to blog posts that may answer some of the other questions in the Further Reading section. My setup works for me, I am running this on a refurbished MacBook Pro M3 Max with 64GB of RAM.

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