This teacher uses local models to generate examples and interactive lectures, including a web simulator for an ABB Omnicore IRB 1090 arm with a RAPID code editor and simple 3D simulation. They also use local models to find errors in student programming projects and build focused interactive examples without recreating every component from scratch. The setup is a Mac Studio M4 Max with 36GB of unified memory. For faster, less sophisticated work they use Tiel-coder-35B-A3B-MLX; for more serious work where speed is less important, they use Qwen 3.8 27B at 4-bit with TurboQuant 8-bit. Larger project changes may go to Gemini or GitHub Copilot, and they were also impressed by the small Ornith 1.5 9B model.
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