Local AI in vscode · Clief Notes

May 22 (edited) • 🏆 Wins

Local AI in vscode

SEE UPDATE in comments: https://www.skool.com/cliefnotes/local-ai-in-vscode?p=e204ee1c

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Others may know this already, but it's a win for me because I did not.

I managed to get my local Ollama instance connected to Copilot Chat inside of VS Code.

Its a little slower than paid models but seems to behaves better than opencode connected the same Ollama instance. I don't understand why that would be but this is pretty interesting.

Amazing times we live in.

UPDATE: How I did it.

Prereq: running Ollama instance on local host

Open Chat in vscode
Click on Auto to Pick a model.
On Language Model dialog, click + Add Models
Select Ollama and fill in the info. My Ollama is on the same machine with default host & port
Select the model you have available.

You can pin a model that you use a lot. Which is handy for a digital hoarder like me.

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Local AI in vscode