> thers, like coding or more advanced agentic workflows can demand much more powerful models.
You can do coding and agentic fine. For coding I use qwen3.6:35b-mlx and agentic granite4.1:3b works fine.
These are the models I use.
- granite4.1:3b
- granite4.1:30b
- gpt-oss:20b
- gpt-oss:120b (less so now)
- mistral-small3.2
- qwen3.6:35b-mlx
There will always be use cases that don't sit on your laptop, but most of what can be done can be done locally, it just requires a good framework to sit on it.
You can do coding and agentic fine. For coding I use qwen3.6:35b-mlx and agentic granite4.1:3b works fine.
These are the models I use.
- granite4.1:3b
- granite4.1:30b
- gpt-oss:20b
- gpt-oss:120b (less so now)
- mistral-small3.2
- qwen3.6:35b-mlx
There will always be use cases that don't sit on your laptop, but most of what can be done can be done locally, it just requires a good framework to sit on it.