alt Hacker Newsall my local models do just fine (128GB Strix Halo, 72GB Blackwell) loading data. I'm not sure you were sold the right bill of goods for "agentic" work. I keep these things busy via mind power for a few hours, then get exhausted.
So I implenented a task queue so when I do have all the ideas, I can just set them to work, and "chew" through the work.
I get that you can concievably get 100 agents to do something interesting, but 99% of my work doesn't seem to need to divine naiver stokes.
Other than that, you might just have a skill issue if you rely so heavily of spinning up a bunch of agents to tell you what the next TODO item is.
Ironically, local models are much more efficient when running multiple parallel agents, provided that KV storage requirements are not excessive (not an issue with DeepSeek 4.1 Flash). It does not make any individual agent faster, but it does raise overall throughput quite a bit. The limit is then set by compute constraints rather than memory bandwidth, so something like DGX Spark or AMD Strix/Gorgon Halo can be expected to do better than the Apple-based alternative.