alt Hacker News> a Swift package that makes Claude available as a server-side language model in Apple's Foundation Models framework
Ahh I was hoping for the opposite: all of the existing features of Claude Code but somehow running locally on my laptop's neural engine. A pipe dream on an M2 with 8 GB of RAM, but I had a flicker of hope there.
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You can use OpenCode or Pi with SSD streaming so it technically will have all the features, just unbearably slow.
I've found most of the frontier coding models require somewhere between 300GB to 1TB to run with full capabilities.
> all of the existing features of Claude Code but somehow running locally on my laptop's neural engine
You can use environment variables to have claude code query literally any endpoint you choose as long as it has a compatible API.
Check out this WWDC session. Obviously not going to compete with the frontier models (and I think 8GB is too small anyways), but Apple did demo MLX + OpenCode.
https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2026/232/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wykPErJ8M-8