Coding From the Himalayas With an Offline AI Agent

What happened

Rittika Jindal demonstrates offline coding on her laptop using OpenCode and Ollama running Qwen3.5 9B locally. With external connections disconnected, the agent fixes an expense calculator’s accumulation bug and passes all five existing tests, which she also runs independently. The guide covers advance setup, connectivity checks and permission prompts, while noting that this one-line repair does not establish performance on larger repositories or unfamiliar frameworks.

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The story so far

Rittika Jindal demonstrated an offline coding agent fixing an expense calculator’s accumulation bug on her laptop, using OpenCode and Ollama with Qwen3.5 9B running locally. With external connections disconnected, the agent made a one-line repair and passed all five existing tests; Jindal also ran the tests independently. The demonstration shows a repair and test run with the necessary resources already on the laptop. Jindal said these tasks can run offline when the model, project dependencies and test tools are available locally, while downloading a new package or looking something up on the web still requires a connection. The result is limited to the expense calculator example and does not establish performance on larger repositories or unfamiliar frameworks.