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Hardware & VRAM Guide for Local Code LLMs

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 …

Installing and Configuring Ollama for Code Generation

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 …

Mastering the OpenCode Terminal User Interface

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 …

The Best 7B and 8B Code Models for Local Development in 2026

The Best 7B and 8B Code Models for Local Development in 2026

You’ve configured Ollama, built a custom Modelfile, and wired it to OpenCode. The stack works. Then you ask the model to generate a React component using the use() hook from React 19, and it confidently produces code using patterns from React 16. You try a Rust async function with 2024 edition …