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Can a Laptop Coding Model Replace Your Cloud Agent? Recursive Flint for Indie Devs

Recursive's Flint is an Apache 2.0 coding model with 40B total and about 2.5B active parameters, built to run agentic coding locally. Here's what it really needs (48 GB of memory), how to set it up with Ollama, llama.cpp or rec, where it beats paid APIs, where it still needs hand-holding, and a simple way to decide.