Agents & InferenceSimon Willison

Ornith-1.0: Self-Scaffolding LLMs for Agentic Coding

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Ornith-1.0 ships MIT-licensed open weights in 9B, 31B, 35B MoE, and 397B MoE variants, with the tested 35B Q4_K_M GGUF fitting in 20GB and running agentic coding workflows locally. The practical takeaway is that open-weight local coding agents are now credible for multi-tool repository navigation and code-search tasks, not just single-shot completion, giving teams a deployable alternative when they need control over weights, licensing, and data locality.

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