Sure, local coding is clearly _possible_, but it's not practical for most people. I've yet to see a reliable setup, if you have one, I'd love to see.
reply> creating plans, using subagents and compactions
Yes, these are all things that Claude Code does for you. However, for the thought loop issue, these are not the fixes. The canonical fix is to limit the number of thought tokens (llama.cpp's `--reasoning-budget`) or try to mess with the various penalty parameters. In any case, it's not a solved problem as far as I can tell.