I would spend those $100 on either API tokens or donate to a charity of your choice. My interview to join this team was whether I could build something of my choosing in under an hour with any coding agent of my choice.

No local model out there is as good as the SOTA right now.

> My interview to join this team was whether I could build something of my choosing in under an hour with any coding agent of my choice.

You should have led with that. I think that's actually more impressive; anyone can spend tokens.