Local AI That Codes Like Claude - Ornith 1.0

Join the community: https://mrc.fm/cmc A new open source model just landed that claims to match Claude Opus on the big coding benchmarks and the smallest version runs on a laptop. It's called Ornith-1.0 from DeepReinforce, and the clever bit is that it writes its own scaffolding instead of relying on a human built harness, it learns to build the orchestration that guides its own solutions. The family spans a tiny 9B all the way to a 397B frontier model, all open weights on Hugging Face. So today I'm putting it through the only test that matters... building real games and apps, live, no edits. Can local AI actually go toe to toe with the frontier labs now? Let's find out what works, what breaks, and whether you'd ever swap this in for the paid tools.