Practical guides
Run Claude Code or OpenCode against a local server on your Mac
Point Claude Code and OpenCode at oMLX, Ollama or any OpenAI-compatible local server running Qwen3.6.
Claude CodeOpenCodeagents
LoRA fine-tuning on a Mac with mlx_lm.lora
QLoRA fine-tune a model on Apple Silicon with mlx-lm: data format, training, fusing and serving, with RAM guidance.
fine-tuningLoRAMLX
oMLX setup and tuning on Apple Silicon
Install oMLX, serve a Qwen3.6 model over OpenAI and Anthropic APIs, and tune the KV cache for long agent sessions.
oMLXserverKV cache
Choosing a Qwen3.6 model and quant by RAM
Which Qwen3.6 model and quantization fits your Mac's unified memory, with a simple sizing rule and per-tier picks.
Qwen3.6quantizationRAM
Why is my Mac slow running local LLMs? A troubleshooting tree
Work out whether slowness comes from prefill, swap, bad defaults, the runtime or the agent harness, and fix it.
troubleshootingperformance