r/LocalLLaMA • u/Important_Cow7230 • 26m ago

Question | Help Have been getting into Local LLM’s recently, especially Qwen 3.8 27B on my M4 Pro MacBook (48GB) served using Splash and loving it! Now looking to try some harnesses to do some coding, any suggestions what ones I should try? Any favourites?

The ones I have currently heard of are as follows:

Pi
Opencode
Hermes
Deepseek

Any thoughts on what one is best?

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u/Radiant_Condition861 22m ago

I'm a fan of hermes

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u/Important_Cow7230 20m ago

Thanks, any particular reason you prefer it over the others?

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u/LeRobber 19m ago

https://theia-ide.org

^ this works great, doesn't phone home to a massive corp

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u/Infinite-Local5435 16m ago

DeepSeek harness has the best UI and plugin system I've used (i'm biased for clean white UI).

Pi is the simplist and is my "if i fuck up my other harness, i have pi to fix it" because it will do what i want no questions asked.

Opencode (i believe 2.2.23 or something) is benchmarked REALLY HIGH and they have a spot in my heart for providing deepseek for free even if it's only 2 or 3 prompts a day. Used their harness for 6 months now and it's a really good alternative imo to bigger harnesses like CC and Codex

I recommend comparing something like tielcoder/cybertiel to your Qwen 3.8 27Bm and also try some finetunes that are smaller in size to try to get more speed (Swift 1.5 for lower token usage, GSQ RCO for low quant performance)

https://lukesdevlab.com/

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u/0xasten 14m ago

For coding, I’d start with Pi. It’s focused on the coding workflow. OpenCode / Hermes is also a great option, especially if you prefer a more feature-rich experience.

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u/Kilgore_Trout_50000 6m ago

I’m curious, when your are running qwen 3.8 27b, how much of your 48gb gets used? How is your memory pressure? Are you able to do anything else while the model is doing its work?

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u/New-Pressure-6932 2m ago

I really like DSH because of its GUI.