OpenHands and AMD: Local Coding Agents Powered by Ryzen AI (No Cloud Required)

OpenHands just announced a collaboration with AMD that lets developers run full coding agents locally on new Ryzen AI hardware — no cloud APIs, no data leaving the machine, and zero per-token cost.

The setup uses AMD’s open-source Lemonade stack + Ryzen AI Max series (CPU + GPU + NPU with 126 TOPS) to run models like Qwen3-Coder-30B directly on-device. You can point OpenHands to a local Lemonade endpoint and get full autonomous agent workflows running offline.

Why it’s interesting:

Local inference for real coding agents (not just autocomplete)

Privacy/compliance: IP never leaves your workstation

Cost: no usage-based billing

Performance: NPU/GPU optimized, low latency

Open source stack end-to-end

Given how fast local LLM tooling is evolving (Apple, NVIDIA, AMD, etc.), this feels like an inflection point: true autonomous dev-agents running locally, not in the cloud.

Curious to hear from others:

Who else is running agentic workloads entirely locally?

Is this the beginning of serious local-first dev tooling?

How big will “offline AI” get as hardware accelerates?