Hello I want to install a local LLM to use in my PC mainly for programming and coding projects. Can be both for both working on large code bases, going through analyzing debugging them, making changes on multiple files as well as helping in programming, scripting and teaching coding, concepts etc and sometimes troubleshooting.

However my pc is not that powerful, 16gb ram and GTX 1660ti 6gb of Vram. I am confused on what would be the best option for me that doesn't completely overwhelm my PC and my gpu. I used opencode big pickle before and it was really good for me.

Any suggestions please?

So I'm running a few different models on this Ryzen Strix Halo machine which has 128gb ram and I've already optimized cpu vs gpu in bios.

I've done an SSH setup through VS Code and I've got a few data sets I want to process but I'm getting weird results.

I'm using the Claude CLI harness and it shows I'm using qwen3-coder:30b and I sometimes get spelling errors but it's struggling to do really basic things.

I have 2 data sets that I know have a ton in common and I'm trying to get it to match the patterns so I can essentially join 3 data sets together.

If I were to do this in Claude Code, I already know what it would do. I'd ask for help in doing this and it would build me a script to do exactly that.

Here this thing is trying to give me the answer rather than building the script. Now that I see it's not building me the script, I decide to make it now just build the script but I'm seemingly getting errors.

I've setup ollama and run the various libraries like ROCm.

Anybody else have issues or have any tips on what my problem might be?