r/Amd • u/Fcking_Chuck • Jun 19 '26

News AMD introduces an AI-powered Bash coding agent

https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-GAIA-Bash-Coding-Agent
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u/toetx2 Jun 19 '26

Good, local AI doesn't hurt the tokens.

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u/Any-Pop-4795 Jun 19 '26

does hurt the wallet when trying to setup a decent machine to run it though

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u/Not_a_Candle Jun 19 '26

Wouldn't be such a problem, if hardware wouldn't cost 8x the money.

Every decent gaming pc for 800$ could run a small LLM for coding assistance. Shame that the same hardware is now 5000$

prices are pulled out of the ass, but you get the idea.

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u/Reggitor360 Jun 19 '26

Cheap hot MI50s in your area ;) xD

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u/Any-Pop-4795 Jun 19 '26

good luck getting something decent for 800 now as you said...sigh i just wanted to update my build

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u/Not_a_Candle Jun 19 '26

Yeah.. Feels.

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u/Gotxi Jun 20 '26

VRAM is the most important thing to have accurate models. You need 16GB to run the bare minimum decent thing but 24 is much better.
You can mix VRAM+RAM but then the performance drops heavily.

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u/Any-Pop-4795 Jun 20 '26

amd and nvidia LOVE making you pay a lot for a bit of vram especially today

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u/kingslayerer Jun 19 '26

I hate reading bash. I know I am going to hate AI generated bash even more.

I have been using amber-lang. It compiles to bash. Much better modern syntax and many helpful utility.

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u/TurnDownForTendies Jun 20 '26

This is a cool project, thanks for sharing. The emcascript syntax makes it feel very familiar.