The Rise of Local Coding Agents

The Rise of Local Coding Agents

Mark Watson
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The Rise of Local Coding Agents

  • Preface: The Rise of Local Coding Agents
    • The Hardware Challenge: Apple Silicon Unified Memory
    • Enter Little-Coder: Customized Skills and Configuration Required
  • Setting Up Your Local Agentic Workspace
    • 0. Prerequisites
    • 1. Choosing a Gemma 4 Model
    • 2. Installing Ollama and Downloading Gemma 4
    • 3. Deploying Little-Coder Skills
    • Verifying That Our New Little-Coder Skills Are Loaded and Available
    • 4. Optimizing Your Developer Environment (VRAM and RAM Conservation)
  • Security Analysis
    • Bare-Metal Security Risks for little-coder
    • My Verdict
  • Running on macOS Using a Non Privileged Account
  • Using Apple Containers
    • 1. Create the Dockerfile
    • 2. Start the container system and build the image
    • 3. Create the machine
    • 4. Open a shell and start Ollama inside the VM
    • 5. Run little-coder and work
    • 6. Useful commands
  • Hands-On Coding Examples with Little-Coder
    • Example 1: Headless Common Lisp Execution
    • Example 2: Clojure Deps Automation and Execution
    • Example 3: Rapid TypeScript Iteration via TSX
    • Example 4: The Write-and-Notify File Strategy
    • Example 5: Headless Python Execution via uv
    • Writing Your First Skill
  • Troubleshooting, Benchmarks, and Versions
    • Troubleshooting
    • When the Small Model Fails
    • Pinned Versions
  • Glossary
  • Wrap-Up: The Future of Your Local Workspace
    • 1. The Strategy of Constraint
    • 2. Guardrails via Custom Skills
    • 3. Actionable Developer Checklist
    • The Path Forward
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  1. Preface: The Rise of Local Coding Agents

  2. Setting Up Your Local Agentic Workspace

  3. Security Analysis

  4. Running on macOS Using a Non Privileged Account

  5. Using Apple Containers

  6. Hands-On Coding Examples with Little-Coder

  7. Troubleshooting, Benchmarks, and Versions

  8. Glossary

  9. Wrap-Up: The Future of Your Local Workspace