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Mastering the OpenCode Terminal User Interface
Ollama is running. The model loaded. You’ve confirmed it generates clean code from the command line. Now you open a coding session and immediately hit the workflow problem: you type a prompt in one terminal, copy the output, switch to your editor, paste it, check the line numbers, realize …
Hardware & VRAM Guide for Local Code LLMs
You pull a 9B coding model in Ollama, ask it to write a simple function, and your laptop sounds like it’s trying to take flight. Three minutes pass. The fan doesn’t slow down. The output finally arrives — at roughly the pace of someone typing with one finger. You check nvidia-smi. The …
The Best 7B and 8B Code Models in 2026, and Which Ones Security Will Approve
Your head of platform forwards a one-line email from the CISO: “Can we run a code model ourselves instead of sending source code to a vendor?” You already know the shortlist. You’ve read the benchmarks, pulled a couple of models into Ollama on your workstation, and watched one of …
Installing and Configuring Ollama for Code Generation
You install Ollama, pull a model, and type a prompt into your coding agent. Nothing happens. The cursor blinks. After 45 seconds, the agent returns connection refused. Ollama is running — you can see the icon in the system tray — but the default install was not configured for a coding workflow.
The …