CODING TOOLS

Agent harness lessons from a 500B+ token decompile: a byte-matching PASS/FAIL oracle beat the reviewer agent. How agents cheated it and what to copy.

Freebuff is a free coding agent paid for by text ads. What the free tier includes, how Freebucks limit usage, and what the privacy policy says about your code.

Ollama 0.40 runs supported models on MLX on Apple Silicon and keeps a backup copy of each model you load. What it costs in disk, what is fixed, and the cleanup.

Copilot CLI 1.0.94 finds local Ollama models from /model and ships an OS-level sandbox. Setup, the 4k context trap, and why local is not offline.

llama.cpp now caches hot MoE experts on the GPU. In the PR author's RTX 5090 run, --cpu-moe plus --moe-cache-mib decoded 2.2x faster than --fit. When to use each flag.

Ollama vs LM Studio vs vLLM vs llama.cpp for coding agents: what each local runtime is for, where they overlap, and which to pick for your setup.

Cohere North Mini Code: a 30B open-weight MoE coding model with 3B active parameters and Apache 2.0 weights. What it offers, where it runs and open questions.

Best local coding LLMs in 2026: which models to run on what hardware, how they benchmark, owned hardware versus cloud API costs, and setups by team size.