16GB (and in many cases 12GB) is the max vram most people will ever reasonably have

The maximum VRAM most users will reasonably have is 16GB, and often 12GB. While this subreddit is skewed towards high-end setups, recent advancements, particularly within the last six months, have made agentic coding feasible even on 16GB cards, for example, using Qwen 27B quants.

This report highlights a recent shift, noting that agentic coding, unlike before, is now feasible on 16GB cards, even with models like Qwen 27B quants.