Building a Local Agent Stack with Llama.cpp and Pi.dev

I am sharing some workflow tips and resources I gathered while working with local agents.

I spent a long time ignoring the agentic craze. Most of the early frameworks felt like over-engineered wrappers that either relied on intrusive cloud APIs or were too fragile for real development work. I only started paying attention when local models seemed to reach a tipping point in reliability, specifically around the release of Qwen 3.5 35B.

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