Comment by hadlock

I think we are already there. You can run a pretty ok LLM on a 4gb raspberry pi that will write most any simple 20-150 line bash script today, or toy application in python/rust. Old laptops pulled out of the trash are probably capable of running smaller LLMs and can explain how functions work. They're no claude code but you probably want a rough-around-the-edges LLM that can't do everything for you, if you're planning on using it to learn to code.