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hear this anon you don't need a $4,699 box to get started local AI. use what you already have first. test your workload.
this is what a $250 GPU did today.
iteration 3 of octopus invaders is here. 4 phases. 6 prompts. zero handwritten code. the same 9B on the same 3060 fixed its own enemy spawning, patched a dual start conflict, added level progression, resized every bullet, and when the browser cached old files it figured that out on its own and added version parameters to force reload.
3,200+ lines across 13 files. every line by qwen 3.5 9B Q4 at 35-50 tok/s on 12 gigs through hermes agent.
understand what your load actually needs before you build. don't get trapped by influencers selling you boxes next to a plant. test on what you have. then decide.
this 3060 impressed me in ways i did not expect and its autonomy is what kept me going. now its time to move to new experiments on other nodes and other models for all of us.
if you are running this setup the exact stack, flags, and open source code, exact prompts i used are in the replies. if you run into issues let me know.
seeing students and builders discover hermes from my posts and start running local is why i do this.
full autonomous build at 8x speed in the video. gameplay at the end. watch it.
