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Reddit r/LocalLLaMAAugust 21, 2026

What’s the best local AI harness for coding + general use?

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So what’s actually the best local AI harness rn? I’ve read a TON about this already and somehow ended up more confused than when I started so I figured screw it, let the community decide. Right now I mainly run Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B and Qwen 3.8 27B, with Ornith 1.5 9B sometimes for lighter stuff. The models themselves are honestly pretty damn good, but the harness situation is where I’m completely lostw and bad harness messes it all Like Pi, Hermes TUI, OpenCode, etc. what do you actually use, and w