
Claude Code local LLM — the field-tested way to run it entirely on your machine
I’m gonna say the quiet part out loud: the day I switched to a Claude Code local LLM workflow, my laptop stopped feeling like a thin client and started feeling like a superpower. On a rainy Tuesday, Wi-Fi went down at a client site. No cloud. No API keys. Yet I kept shipping because everything—from code generation to small refactors—ran on my box. This guide distills exactly how to replicate that setup, with opinionated steps that work on macOS, Windows, and Linux. Why pair Claude Code with a local LLM? Four reasons keep pulling engineers toward a Claude Code local LLM stack: Privacy by default. Your source never leaves disk. No third-party logs, no audit surprises. Latency you can...