#local-models

2 items tagged #local-models.

GUIDE 2026-05-04

Running local models in Cline with Ollama: when it's worth the trouble

Cline supports Ollama as a model provider, which means a fully offline coding agent on your laptop. The setup is straightforward. The quality gap is large. Here's how to think about both.

Owner · 8 min #cline #ollama

BLOG 2026-03-26

The 7B coding model renaissance: small models are good enough for more than you think

Qwen 2.5 Coder 7B, DeepSeek Coder V2 lite, and a few others are quietly making 'small local model' a real category. The use cases that fit are larger than the 'just for autocomplete' framing.

Owner · 5 min #models #local-models