Agentic coding on a laptop with Pi and a local LLM
Oct 14, 2026 · 6 min read ·
On my laptop, which has unified memory, I switched fully to using a local LLM for development, replacing the cloud mod...
Nice write-up. The lean agent bit matches what we saw. One of our planning agents had 79 tools and its first request was about 22k tokens, 15.6k of that just tool schemas. We put most of them behind a search tool so it fits in a 16k context on laptops. How big is Pi's first request with your setup?
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