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M1 Mac Becomes Offline AI Coding Monster with 26B Llama – Here's the Build

OpenAI's GPT-4 charges $2.50 per million input tokens – that's $25 vanished after one bug hunt. One dev said screw it: built a fully offline AI coding agent on an M1 Mac using Llama.cpp.

theAIcatchup Apr 09, 2026 4 min read
M1 Mac terminal running Llama.cpp server with 26B model for offline AI coding

⚡ Key Takeaways

  • M1 Macs run 26B Llama models offline at 15-20 t/s with Llama.cpp – zero API costs. 𝕏
  • Setup uses Continue.dev VS Code extension for smoothly local AI coding integration. 𝕏
  • Escapes cloud dependency, boosts privacy; scales for solo devs but needs decent RAM. 𝕏
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