Running LLMs locally on a Mac (opens in new tab)

Figure 1 A twin post to front-end clients for AI image models, but for text. The local-LLM ecosystem on Macs is pretty luxurious, with a profusion of GUI options and Linux-y infra, and some specialised tooling that lags the community frontier but is not bad. Also, during the 2026 ramageddon, Macs suddenly look like remarkably good deals for high-RAM parallel-compute machines. I accidentally started going unreasonably deep and technical on this in the . That repo really targets my coding assis...