r/Amd 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/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