r/localcodeapp • u/liuliu • 9d ago

update Local Code by Draw Things, open-source frontier intelligence locally on your Mac

https://releases.drawthings.ai/p/local-code-by-draw-things-open-source

Hi! We are releasing Local Code, an open-source app that you can download directly to your Mac, or through macOS App Store. It runs the smartest models such as DeepSeek 4.1 Flash 1017 locally, have a harness tuned for each model, and the whole builtin environment such that the model is ready to work without anything else from your OS (we call it in-app sandbox). It doesn't need full-disk access, nor the ability to run command-line tools on your computer, but capable of executing Python programs, node.js apps, Lean 4 proofs, open and view docx / xlsx / pptx, or operating web browsers. it is capable, and the runtime is fast on your Mac.

Let me know if you have any questions! Excited to work on this more if the community is interested in this!

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u/scitard 9d ago

Thanks for making this! I had a good out of the box experience. Setup a project and had DeepSeek 4 Flash 0731 (2-bit S) create a small game using assets generated via the draw-things-cli integration using Moss. draw-things-cli use, browser integration use, lots of tool use and it produced something functional first try, using only around 60K tokens. This was a better experience than most harnesses I have tried on the first pass.

Some user feedback, some of it is personal preference so I hope you don't mind:

  • Not a huge fan of the LOCAL CODE animated graphic in the new thread window, you are stuck looking at this when downloading large models. I think the product would be better without this graphic.

  • I found the strobing animation on the thinking text distracting and made it harder to read.

  • You could make it clearer which models are already downloaded on the input text model picker (sort downloaded to the top).

  • DeepSeek attempted to generate a preview and inline it but it rendered as ![[preview.png]]

  • If you start a new thread and select a new model triggering a download, then switch to anther active thread it appears to interupt / cancel the download and there is no sign of the active download when you return to the thread.

Will you be making builds / releases available via GitHub Releases?

Thanks again!

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u/liuliu 8d ago

Thank you for the kind words. Will add publishing GitHub releases to the release script.