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Metal will not give you the RAM on the box, and the number it does give is not the 75% everyone repeats. I measured the three ceilings on a 96 GB Mac Studio, then measured what modern hybrid-attention models actually spend against them — including a Gemma 4 cache that quietly holds three times its own sliding window.
Three weeks after the swarm shipped its first honest builds, the work stopped being about making small local models smarter and became about making them stop lying to me. Here is what 602 commits bought, what the desktop looks like now, and the three defects I found in my own honesty machinery while writing this post.
We forked Block's goose into a multi-agent swarm that decomposes a hard app spec into a task DAG, runs it across three small local models on LM Studio, and makes them verify their own work by actually running it. Over six days and 300-plus commits, the last real limit stopped being the swarm's coordination and became the small model's raw coding ability — and even that ceiling moved.
