Discussion on Running Local Models for Computer Use
Rough-Bookkeeper5717 · reddit · 2026-07-11
The author discusses an AI harness + Computer Use workflow, focusing not on files, browsers, or MCP, but on scenarios where "the model directly controls the UI."
Discussion Focus
- The interest is in local or Hugging Face models, rather than hosted products like Claude, OpenAI, Mistral, Perplexity, xAI, or Gemini.
- Scenarios include controlling Zoom, Teams, or remote desktops that are hard to integrate directly.
- Because these environments cannot connect via MCP or standard APIs, UI-level agent control is the only option.
- The author notes that multimodal models are crucial for this type of usage.
Experience Sharing
- Larger parameter models or MoE models generally perform better.
- As long as tool calls are kept minimal, some 20B+ models can achieve a degree of success.
- The author looks forward to others sharing which local models work best in similar "UI-only operation" real-world scenarios.
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