Thanks to SSD streaming I was able to try DwarfStart on my M3 Max 64GB. I let DeepSeek Flash analyze a ~50K LOC codebase. Then I asked Opus to double-check and review the findings. I was impressed that 5 of the 6 findings reported by DeepSeek were accurate.
antirez@antirezJun 16
Today I had an harder than usual question for my local model (security). With SSD streaming now DwarfStar can run DeepSeek v4 PRO at 4.15 t/s, and this was more than enough to get a detailed reply. I already feel "safer" than before in my AI future. M5 max 128GB, model 433GB.
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Useful datapoint. The next thing I’d want is a replay pack around the 6 findings: finding IDs, repro tests, prompt/model hashes, false-positive/triage time, and which issues survive a clean checkout. That’s what turns “LLM code review worked” into an eval harness.
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Good points. If I find the time to perform a detailed evaluation I will share. Possibly on an open source code base.

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