Can 16GB VRAM Run Local AI Agents? Users Share Setups

A Reddit user asks how to run local AI agents for daily tasks, research and development on 16GB of VRAM. They tried Goose, Hermes Agent and OpenCode via Ollama without much success, found vLLM too fragile with the wrong model, and seek others' model choices and tuning tips.

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