Running a coding agent offline at the foot of the Himalayas
What happened
On 27 October 2026, Latent Space reported that a principal engineer at Thomson Reuters used OpenCode 1.19.4 with Ollama to run the Qwen3.5 9B model locally on a laptop in an offline environment at the foot of the Himalayas, testing the feasibility of coding without a connection. The report says the exercise aimed to test how well a local AI agent can assist with coding when there is no network access. Progress so far is limited to this single test, and the report does not mention follow-up tests or broader use.
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- Latent SpaceCoding From the Himalayas With an Offline AI Agent
How to set up and run an offline coding agent using OpenCode, Ollama and Qwen.
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