Thesis: Hybrid agentic workflow analysis

High Level Description
Agentic coding is becoming more of a standard in the developer industry. With the usage of AI services such as OpenAI's ChatGPT and Anthropic's Claude usage limits are getting tightened.

Modern laptops are getting more capable of running local open-source models and possibility of delegating simpler tasks to save on cloud cost is becoming a desirable solution.

This thesis aims to investigate a hybrid solution of local and cloud LLM models working together to both offload cloud capacity but also cloud costs of running larger LLM models.

Project Description
In this Thesis, investigate a hybrid approach to agentic development. The investigation should propose a solution in an Agentic harness, eg. OpenCode where a larger LLM can oversee and delegate tasks such as exploring or implementations to smaller local models.


Who are we looking for?

• Bachelor/Master of Science in Computer Science/Engineering
  
• Graduation in June 2027
  
• Fluency in Swedish, both written and spoken
  
• Fluency in English, both written and spoken
  
  

Purpose
In this Thesis, investigate a hybrid approach to agentic development. The investigation should propose a solution in an Agentic harness, eg. OpenCode where a larger LLM can oversee and delegate tasks such as exploring or implementations to smaller local models.

In this thesis, investigate these questions:

• Is smaller LLM models capable of handling delegated tasks from larger LLM
  

• What hardware requirements would a developer need to run this form of workflow
  

• How complex is the setup?
  

• Do we need specific agent harness to do this?
  
  
• Do we need specific system prompts to handle this?
  
  References
  
• OpenCode: https://opencode.ai/
  
• Nvidia Spark: https://www.nvidia.com/sv-se/products/rtx-spark/
  

• LM Studio: https://lmstudio.ai/
  

• Llama CPP: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp
  
  An Exciting Journey with Knightec Group
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Practical Information
This is a thesis position, located at our office in Sundsvall . Start date January or March 2027.

Please submit your application as soon as possible, but no later than 2026-11-30 . If you have any questions, you are welcome to contact johanna.edstrom@knightec.se . Note that due to GDPR, we only accept applications through our careers page.