Alison Fang-Wei Wu

Agentic coding without the cloud: evaluating open-weight large language models on longitudinal data preparation tasks

Large language models (LLMs) and agents are now widely used tools in code development, with data typically sent to third-party cloud-based models. Their adoption in research using personal data is constrained by governance requirements that typically prohibit data transmission to external services. Locally deployable open-weight models offer an alternative since sensitive data never leave the local environment. We introduce an open-source framework for evaluating the efficacy of AI agents powered by open-weight LLMs on one of the most persistent bottlenecks in research on longitudinal populati