Get the latest tech news

Building a (Bad) Local AI Coding Agent Harness from Scratch

The original document for this post is available with full source code on GitHub This is a walk-through of how we built a terminal-based coding agent in ~400 lines of vanilla Node.js, running entirely on a local GPU with no cloud dependencies and no npm packages. This tool was built with the help of Claude Sonnet 4.6 in about an hour following set up of Google Gemma 3 4GB running locally under Ollama.

None

Get the Android app