This hands-on PoC shows how I got an open-source model running locally in Visual Studio Code, where the setup worked, where it broke down, and what to watch out for if you want to apply a local model ...

You can now run LLMs for software development on consumer-grade PCs. But we’re still a ways off from having Claude at home.

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