Seven Hours, Zero Internet, and Local AI Coding at 40k Feet
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A developer shares their experience coding with local AI on a plane without internet.
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NitpickLawyer
4 months ago
I don't know what ollama uses behind the scenes, but there's also MLX for macs, which should be faster in general. Also there's a thing about top_k on gpt-oss which might need tweaking. Saw reports that setting it to 100 vs. default 0 brings an extra ~20t/s in generation speed.
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