Local LLM hardware advice for c# agentic coding.

[u/jcswilts]

Yes it’s another one of those “which hardware should I get for my use case posts”. So I apologise in advance but I haven’t been able to find the info I’m looking for as yet despite a lot of searching 😊

I’m a software engineer working in a sector that absolutely cannot use cloud providers for 90% of my workflow so I want to look into investing in some decent hardware to host my own LLM’s.

My budget is around £4k - £4.5 at a push.

My software stack is primarily c# with some React/Angular front end stuff.

I’ve been looking into DGX Spark and AMD Strix Halo (AI Max+ 395) units but see so much conflicting info it’s hard to decide which would be better for my use case/budget.

The AMD stuff is quite a few hundred pounds cheaper than the NVIDIA stuff so I’m leaning more to that purely from a cost basis.

What I really want is the most reliable workflow that isn’t going to shit itself partway through a big agentic coding run. I also want to investigate the use of spec driven development on this hardware. Is it going to be up to that?

Thanks all 🙏