usermac

I deal with the professional LLMs, of course, but I'm really intrigued by the possibility of local coding offline. I've got a MacBook Air M4 16gb. Does it have any chance at all of doing coding? NOTE: I am not too worried about the context window because the way I work is very targeted and surgical. I'll have it look at one file and have it do something very exact to that file.

I would just like to know, most machines don't have a ton of memory. If I put a super small LLM, and if I were to have unit test, do a loop until it passes this unit test. Is that a real possibility or is it just out of the question?

When I search using the search engines, they lie and tell me about a maker who I know is not US based or am I wrong and they have a plant here in the US?