I have a Framework Desktop that I want to put AI models on. I keep hearing that local models are getting more and more impressive. I would love to one day get off of my Claude dependence for the sake of privacy and running things in house.
I am currently trying out using pi agent with GLM-4.7-Flash Q8_0.
I don't have much of a reference to say how it compares to other local models, but it's definitely not something I could switch over to as a main driver instead of Claude.
What are you guys thoughts?
This is also the first time I've tried Pi. I've also been recommended hermes, which I know very little about.
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Is GLM too slow or not capable enough? It's quite a big model, if the runtime is setup correctly you should have good quality but getting a throughput similar to cloud models is going to be difficult. Did you give Qwen3.8-27B-FP8 a try?
Also you mentioned Pi as your harness, but what are you using as the inference backend?
I haven't, it seems like I can't do this with my current Vulkan setup, but I'll do some exploration.
I'm also waiting for the nixos support for glm 5.3 flash
Hey, thanks for the reply, the speed is actually pretty good!
So it's running on llama.cpp (llama-server) b10408, Vulkan/RADV, behind llama-swap.
Your questions made me realize i also had a mismatch in my pi model config, the contextWindow and maxTokens had drifted apart pretty significantly so I just fixed that now.
/etc/nixos/configuration.nix
~/.pi/agent/models.json (fixed)