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How I Built a Lightweight, Local-First VS Code AI Assistant with Ollama

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🚀 The Motivation Cloud AI coding assistants are convenient, but subscription fees add up and sending enterprise or personal codebases to external APIs isn't ideal for privacy. I wanted a simple, zero-cost, local-first alternative that integrates directly into VS Code and hooks straight into Ollama…

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  1. 2026-10-10 07:47 · DEV Community — AI
    How I Built a Lightweight, Local-First VS Code AI Assistant with Ollama

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