The landscape of AI coding assistants has completely shifted. While cloud-based subscriptions like GitHub Copilot or Claude Pro are excellent, they come with two major pain points: recurring monthly costs and privacy concerns regarding your proprietary code.
Thanks to the incredible advancements in efficiency, you can now run state-of-the-art coding LLMs directly on your local machine with zero latency, absolute privacy, and absolutely no cost.
In this guide, we will set up a blazing-fast, context-aware local AI coding assistant using Ollama and Continue.dev in VS Code.
Why Go Local?
Prerequisites
