Machine Learning & AIMachine Learning & AI
Conference45min
ADVANCED

Running Your Coding Agent Locally: Lessons from a Real-World Experiment

Cloud-based coding assistants like Claude Code or GitHub Copilot are powerful—but what happens when you try to bring that experience fully on-premise?
In this talk, we’ll explore the practical journey of building and running a local AI coding setup: choosing models, hosting them on consumer hardware, connecting frontends like LM Studio, and evaluating what really works (and what doesn’t).We’ll discuss trade-offs in latency, memory, and tool integration, the role of KV cache and model routing, and how far open-source models can go in replicating commercial AI dev environments.
Expect a mix of architecture insights, debugging war stories, and honest conclusions about what’s currently feasible—and what’s still wishful thinking—when it comes to local AI coding.

Alessio Soldano
Alessio SoldanoIBM
Stefano Maestri
Stefano MaestriIBM

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Tuesday, March 24, 16:50-17:35
Room 4
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Cloud-based coding assistants like Claude Code or GitHub Copilot are powerful—but what happens when you try to bring that experience fully on-premise?
In this talk, we’ll explore the practical journey of building and running a local AI coding setup: choosing models, hosting them on consumer hardware, connecting frontends like LM Studio, and evaluating what really works (and what doesn’t).We’ll discuss trade-offs in latency, memory, and tool integration, the role of KV cache and model routing, and how far open-source models can go in replicating commercial AI dev environments.
Expect a mix of architecture insights, debugging war stories, and honest conclusions about what’s currently feasible—and what’s still wishful thinking—when it comes to local AI coding.
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Alessio Soldano

Alessio Soldano

IBM

Italy

Open-source software engineer with over 15yrs of experience in the field and people manager of a worldwide distributed and diverse team of engineers. Contributor of RESTEasy and many other successful open-source projects (WildFly, Quarkus, Apache CXF, Apache WSS4J, Apache Santuario, ...)
Stefano Maestri

Stefano Maestri

IBM

Italy

With over 25 years of experience in enterprise software development and AI engineering, I explore how artificial intelligence is transforming the way we build, learn, and live with technology. I have an old passion for Open Source and more recent one for AI Engineering.

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