LM Studio has quickly become the best way to run local LLMs on an Apple Silicon Mac: no offense to vllm/ollama and other terminal-based approaches, but LLMs have many levers for tweaking output and sometimes you need a UI to manage it. Now that LM Studio supports MLX models, it's one of the most efficient too.
I'm not bullish on MCP, but at the least this approach gives a good way to experiment with it for free.
I'm not bullish on MCP, but at the least this approach gives a good way to experiment with it for free.