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Phi3 3B is the best local LLM model for programming questions that I have seen. It’s quite capable, and doesn’t use as many computing resources as other models of similar capability. It runs on an M1 chip without making the computer sluggish.

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Phi-3 is a family of lightweight 3B (Mini) and 14B (Medium) state-of-the-art open models by Microsoft.