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Thanks-this is genuinely encouraging; I'd assumed AI help was strongest on front-end work(web apps/SwiftUI), so this is my first concrete example of an LLM catching memory‑unsafe C/C++-could you share your toolchain (CLI/IDE integration) and model details (name/quant/runtime), and what "awesome" 100% on‑device Windows/Mac apps you most want to see?

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I've been using a lot of the Chinese open source models like R1 and the Qwen coder series. I've also been trying some community mods of them from HuggingFace.

I was using a combo of Ollama + Roo Code for the front/back end but Ollama is kind of dumb when it comes to memory overload protections. I've since switched to LM Studio and it has a very annoying hard timeout of 2-3 minutes on its API server. Local isn't perfect right now, but when it does run you can see the potential as clear as day.

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