Running PolyStrata + Cline coding agent on a $0-fancy laptop at ~90 tok/s
rpwoerk · reddit · 2026-10-16
The author configured a low-cost local setup — 32GB DDR4, an NVIDIA 3070 mobile 8GB, and an i7-11800H — to run qwen3.6-35b-a3b-ud-q4km (PolyStrata) with Cline. Screenshots show the agent autonomously handling git commits and file edits at 90 tok/s with acceptable results, expert cache hit rates around 24-27%, demonstrating that a cheap local box can support a usable coding-agent workflow.
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