Running Coding Agents Locally: RAM Costs Now Exceed Token Costs
RishabJainK · x · 2026-10-14
Rishab Jain argues that companies are increasingly encouraging engineers to run models locally and buying GPUs to do so. His key point: the cost of RAM for running coding agents now exceeds the cost of tokens. He suggests a Threadripper plus RAM to move a team's coding agents off laptops, with a link to a longer thread.
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