Claude is still the best agentic coding tool, but Anthropic's tightening grip is the best argument yet for going local
… It's not all perfect for local models, and that's why the cloud still has its place. The hardware to run anything in the 27B-and-up range costs a fair bit, and both VRAM and system RAM are constant constraints made even harder to reconcile given the increasing costs of both over the past year. …