I’m building an OpenClaw which I have named “Gandalf.” It is running on a Mac Studio (M2, 64GB RAM).
I have installed Kwen3-Coder-Next and have that as the primary LLM:
https://dev.to/sienna/qwen3-coder-next-the-complete-2026-…
I’m trying out Cognee for graph-based memory:
https://blog.dailydoseofds.com/p/openclaws-memory-is-brok…
I added a Ralph Mode skill:
https://clawhub.ai/richginsberg/ralph-mode
He just created a plan for a feature and is proceeding to tackle it in Ralph Mode with the goal of creating a PR for me to review in the morning when I wake up.
Kwen is not as good as Claude so far, but with Ralph mode, it shouldn’t matter too much.
Supposedly this Qwen model is close to Claude Sonnet 4.5 in terms of coding ability.
Either way, I’m pretty sure agents with local LLMs are the future.
Now I’m thinking about buying a kitted out Mac Studio… 🤩