Today, I was browsing Hacker News when I stumbled upon an interesting project: coderunner-ui. The premise was compelling – a local-first AI workspace that lets you chat with LLMs and execute generated code in isolated environments, all without sending your data to the cloud. As someone who’s always looking for tools that respect privacy while providing powerful capabilities, this caught my attention immediately.
I cloned the repository, excited to try it out. Then I hit a wall: “Requires macOS on Apple Silicon.”
I use an Intel Mac. The Apple container system that coderunner-ui depends on is only available on Apple Silicon Macs.I have spent considerable time last few weeks solving something similar so I decided to dig deeper.
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