I tried to do agenic coding with Qwen 3.8 27B 3bit quant on a macbook air m2 24gb. It took 63 hours, but amazingly, the flight simulator worked.
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SummaryA Reddit user ran agentic coding with Qwen 3.8 27B at 3-bit quantization on a MacBook Air M2 with 24GB RAM; the task took 63 hours and produced a working flight simulator.
Why it mattersFirsthand lower-bound test of local agentic coding on consumer Apple silicon, useful for calibrating expectations on hardware limits.
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