--- title: I Built Real Projects on an Old RX 580 Using Midnight... description: A developer ran a local AI coding agent (Midnight Coder) with a custom Qwen3-Coder-30B-based model on an old AMD RX 580 GPU using Ollama, building real... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/i-built-real-projects-on-an-old-rx-580-using-midnight-coder-midnightcoder-30b-igghfd9b8 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: I Built Real Projects on an Old RX 580 Using Midnight Coder + MidnightCoder-30B | daily.dev og:description: A developer ran a local AI coding agent (Midnight Coder) with a custom Qwen3-Coder-30B-based model on an old AMD RX 580 GPU using Ollama, building real... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/i-built-real-projects-on-an-old-rx-580-using-midnight-coder-midnightcoder-30b-igghfd9b8 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/igGHFD9B8.png og:image:alt: I Built Real Projects on an Old RX 580 Using Midnight Coder + MidnightCoder-30B og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # I Built Real Projects on an Old RX 580 Using Midnight Coder + MidnightCoder-30B **[Medium](https://daily.dev/sources/medium_js)** · 4 min read · 3 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A developer ran a local AI coding agent (Midnight Coder) with a custom Qwen3-Coder-30B-based model on an old AMD RX 580 GPU using Ollama, building real projects including browser games, SPAs, dashboards, and Node.js services entirely offline. 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