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Hmm, Claude Code and Opencode work fine for me.

It's a bit amusing that coding agents rely on drawing 1000W+ and using 2TB+ of memory in a datacenter to run, yet people really focus on the last few watts and few hundred megabytes of memory on their laptop (which get dwarfed by the energy cost of compiling their code anyways). But I suppose making them a bit faster and lighter wouldn't hurt.

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The data centre runs on a dedicated power line. My laptop runs on battery. Using coding agents currently drains battery quite fast, which is surprising, given that the vast majority of the work does not take place on my laptop.

Making the client side coding agent more efficient isn't about saving the climate. It is about extending the workday (which might actually make the climate worse)

I think this is overly reductive. For sure the models are behemoths and consume a lot of resources, but the harness can have a big impact on how much the model is used. For example, having a strong set of tools available in the harness means the model can work much more efficiently.

It is also just an indicator of the planning and polish that a particular harness may have.

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