Can you run a useful coding only llm on an m4 MacBook air with 24Gb of ram?
Hi everyone, I was wondering if you can run any sort of useful LLM for coding only on my 24Gb m4 10 core MBA machine. The machine is modded with a thermal pad and some extra stuff so it doesn't throttle and performs the same as my flatmate's MBP M3 as per our cinebench 2026 measurements. I understand it's far too weak to run any general model to do anything useful but I was wondering if it's good enough to run a coding specific LLM and not even for massive projects, just like some stm32 embedded code and some simple data analysis python scripts. I did some research already but I'm still not sure what the best model would be since I'm not super into the LLM scape. Could anyone provide some insight into this if they tried it, what models are worth playing with or it it's a waste of time. I don't expect claude level performance of course. I wanted some guidance before going down the rabbit hole.