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Cline and LM Studio: the local coding stack with Qwen3 Coder 30B
For the first time, local models are powerful enough to run Cline effectively on a laptop.
Combined with Cline's compact prompt system (designed specifically for local models at 10% the length), you get an agent that can handle substantial coding tasks without ever touching the cloud. The tradeoff is that you lose access to MCP tools, Focus Chain, and MTP features, but you gain a streamlined experience optimized for local performance. Your laptop becomes a self-contained development environment where Cline can analyze codebases, suggest improvements, write tests, and execute commands -- all without any network dependency.
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