GitHub Copilot goes down on a Tuesday afternoon. You’re mid-feature, context loaded, and suddenly the autocomplete suggestions stop. You refresh. You wait. You check the status page. Partial outage. No ETA.

Or maybe it’s a different kind of Wednesday — the one where HR sends a …

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 …

Your team completes a three-month migration to an air-gapped environment to satisfy new compliance requirements. Two security audits. Significant budget. Two weeks after go-live, someone discovers the developers are using personal phone hotspots to access GitHub Copilot — because the local …

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 …

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 …