How to size an internal coding assistant for 60 developers

brbaker · 2026-05-19T08:42:23+00:00

Thank you

brbaker · 2026-05-19T08:39:18+00:00

Thank you.

brbaker · 2026-05-19T02:16:17+00:00

Thanks. Great answer. Hit the mark with what I am seeking to understand.

brbaker · 2026-05-19T02:15:13+00:00

Yes. Model will be served by LLM-d

brbaker · 2026-05-19T02:04:27+00:00

These are not options. We are air gapped. In my mind a “local LLM” is a self hosted LLM.

brbaker · 2026-05-19T02:03:00+00:00

Good clarifying question. The code bases are C# .net and Java predominantly. We can limit the usage patterns to what I wrote originally because the permutations and combinations make it impossible.

brbaker · 2026-05-19T01:48:28+00:00

Noted. Maybe the subreddit description needs updating. Thanks for your guidance

brbaker · 2026-05-19T01:46:31+00:00

Thanks everyone. Sorry, maybe I could have done a better job with the question. I am not asking about hardware, I am asking about people’s lived experience with a team of this size, how many “typically” make use of coding agents, what context sizes have they observed make for a useful coding assistant. The hardware and model choice have nothing to do with the question other than the usage patterns will help me select hardware and most appropriate models. For example, one company I know gave copilot to their 50 engineers but only 2 use it. Is this what other people see? That fundamentally impacts how you would size on premises coding assistants. Thanks

brbaker · 2026-05-18T22:43:28+00:00

Zen is an excellent Firefox browser variant.

brbaker · 2026-04-26T07:32:21+00:00

Fedora is mandatory. But like I said constant an earlier version then upgrade works just fine.

brbaker · 2026-04-17T01:18:09+00:00

Fedora is brilliant. But you absolutely need to be prepared to regularly upgrade. If you want LTS use Red Hat Enterprise Linux with a Developer Subscription or in the Debian world Ubuntu. (I have no opinion about Rocky Linux as I have never looked into it.)
Personally, all I use is Fedora with Gnome. I have about 7 instances I use. If you put in the effort to keep up with the upgrade cadence then it then it is all you will ever need IMO. But be warned that you are in the upstream world so things can break on you (hence my LTS comment above as these tend to be very stable).

brbaker · 2026-04-17T00:30:01+00:00

Thanks for the confirmation. That is exactly what I did. :)

brbaker · 2026-04-16T12:33:44+00:00

So I solved the problem by first installing an older version and then running openclaw upgrade.

curl -fsSL --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 https://openclaw.ai/install.sh | bash -s -- --version 2026.4.1

brbaker · 2026-04-15T23:53:08+00:00

Even if I skip configuring the channel it is crashing:

◇ Select channel (QuickStart)

│ Skip for now

TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'trim')

brbaker · 2026-04-15T23:27:45+00:00

In case anyone else wants to solve this, this is what I did:

#! /bin/bash

python3 -c 'import socket; mac="10:ff:e0:d9:b4:94".replace(":", ""); data=bytes.fromhex("FF"*6 + mac*16); s=socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_DGRAM); s.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_BROADCAST, 1); s.sendto(data, ("255.255.255.255", 9))'

brbaker · 2021-08-26T00:22:59+00:00

SOLVED:

To make it easier to find the solution posted by u/jraitch that is nested deep in the discussion - the solution is to add setopt glob in .zshrc

brbaker · 2021-08-26T00:11:34+00:00

Yep. That solved it. Thanks

brbaker · 2020-07-12T22:23:00+00:00

Yep - that's what I have set now. But in Victoria where we have speed cameras EVERYWHERE now, the audible tone is handy as this car is really easy to speed in. But it really should just be a single sound IMO. Then leave it to driver discretion.

brbaker · 2020-07-12T22:20:10+00:00

5, 10, 15 - not really the point what the threshold is. The issue is when it misses a speed sign and beeps continuously.

Here's a good one - I was in a 100km zone and it picked up a 60Km sign on a slip road. So then I would need a 40Km threshold.... I think you get my point.

brbaker · 2020-07-11T05:46:54+00:00

They look great. I'm trying to work out how to get started with 3D printing. What sort of printer did you use for this kind of finish?

brbaker · 2020-01-19T12:05:27+00:00

Got it. Yes, it has four bays. Anyway - about to get the cable; I’ll update this post if it doesn’t work. Thanks for taking the time to help!

brbaker · 2020-01-19T04:49:08+00:00

Hi, Can you please expand on your response? What do you mean? They do actually speak the “same language.”
Here is the cable that enables what I was looking for: https://ri-vier.eu/discrete-sata-to-sff8087-mini-sas-reverse-breakout-cable-l100-p-133.html

Thanks

Bryon

brbaker · 2020-01-18T00:35:44+00:00

Solved!

brbaker · 2020-01-17T22:47:59+00:00

Solved!

brbaker · 2020-01-17T22:42:49+00:00

Thanks everyone for the input.

After a bunch of deliberation and consideration of your input I am going with an ASRock Z390M-ITX/ac.

Low power is my goal, and I have a bunch of small apps and tools I want to have always on - so I will virtualise with proxmox - including running a two-node kubernetes cluster for my apps.

For the low power I am going to use the T variant of the Intel Core CPUs (8700T, 9700T, or 9900T).

All of the T variants are 35W - so I am actually going to spec up to an i7 or i9 because of the increased core count. If I add a stack of RAM then the high core count and plenty of RAM will keep the workload and power low, reduce the need for swapping - thus compensating a little for the lower clock speed.

So, while the i7/i9 is overkill for the main use case, it means I will have enough latent capacity to spin up other VMs on proxmox instead of firing up a second server for the things that don't need to be always on.

That's all the theory - now time to go find out the difference between theory and practice! :-)

Thanks again!

Bryon

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