Reddit user pairs Mac mini M5 Pro with old M4 as sub-agent for local coding agents
Calm-Set6265 · reddit · 2026-10-17
A Reddit user details a two-Mac local agent setup: a Mac mini M5 Pro (48GB) running Qwen 27b MLX as the main brain, with an older M4 (24GB) on Qwen2.5 Coder 14b as a sub-agent to relieve memory pressure. He routes everything through litellm to protect ollama ports, drives it via the opencode desktop app, and argues for plan-first workflows — decompose tasks, implement sequentially, explicitly delegate code writing to the sub-agent — with temperature 0.5 for the main model and 0.1-0.2 for the coder.
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