One month fully local on a DGX Spark: daily tasks fine, code still needs Claude to check
michaelthatsit · reddit · 2026-10-27
Reddit user michaelthatsit reports a month of running a local model on a DGX Spark, building his own agent harness and client app along the way while also using Claude Code. Everyday tasks are mostly local now, but he still doesn't trust the local model to hit his quality bar on code without Claude double-checking. He asks the community whether anyone has gone fully local with zero frontier-model fallback, and what their tipping point was. No specific model names or benchmarks — more a candid mid-journey status report highlighting the trust gap in local coding models.
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