A Practical Local Coding Workstation: LM Studio, Qwen2.5-Coder, and Pi

23 September 2026

A hands-on recipe for a fully local, privacy-first coding agent on a 16GB Mac: LM Studio for inference, Qwen2.5-Coder for code, n-gram speculative decoding for speed, and the Pi harness to tie it together.
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Build a Local LLM Agent with pi + LM Studio and Custom Skills

20 September 2026

Run pi fully offline with a local model served by LM Studio, then teach it four custom skills: code review, coding, Angular 21+ and a mail agent.
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