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# Twenty-Four Gigabytes of VRAM Becomes a Practical Local Coding Tier

## Observation

Local coding models are becoming useful on high-end consumer hardware, creating a viable private lane even when frontier cloud agents remain stronger overall.

## Why it matters

This dated record adds public evidence to the harness architecture outlives model choice analysis and keeps the claim auditable as the underlying products and practices change.

## Provenance

Normalized from QWG AI Telegram message 2619. The original Russian-language record remains available at https://t.me/qwgai/2619.