Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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An 8-billion-parameter model running locally hit 99% on agentic tasks — beating Claude's 87% on the same benchmark. The secret wasn't a bigger model. It was guardrails: validation, retries, and forced structured output wrapped around the same 8B. For agents, the scaffolding beats the size — and this runs on your laptop.

Source (open source): github.com/antoinezambelli/forge

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