Small local models struggle to be useful for coding on 8GB GPUs due to context bloat and tool-calling/syntax issues
Read the original at old.reddit.com→Hey! Like a lot of people here with consumer GPUs (RTX 4060 8GB in my case), I wanted to see if I could use local models for daily coding tasks instead of burning cloud credits on simple boilerplate. The issue with...
Original headline: "Making small local models actually useful for coding"
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- Aug 16, 16:11 UTC r/LocalLLaMA lead source Making small local models actually useful for coding