I Swapped My Local Coding Model Overnight From a Hotel. The Agent Graded the Upgrade Itself.
Local models are how I run my community work, my volunteer projects, my side hustles, and my musings, for two reasons: cost and keeping client data away from the labs. A new version dropped, so I upgraded it overnight from a hotel, additively, without touching the old one. Then I handed the new model the reviews and let my OpenCode agent test its own upgrade. It stood up a throwaway server, probed itself, and found three config gaps quietly throttling it. Here is the journey, in tables.
Local models are how I run my community work, my volunteer projects, my side hustles, and my musings. Two reasons, both simple:
