Codetricks

Local AI coding

If you are using copilot and you want to try the local coding agent, then you need to first deactivate copilot in the extension manager. Local coding agent has the advantage that your source code is not transferred into the cloud. If you work in a company they might demand this from you.

Then first install the continue.dev extension. Follow the code tour (only works in the source code view of vs-code)...

Next we need to install a locally deployed AI model runner: Ollama. Follow the the code tour (only works in the source code view of vs-code)...

open command line and install the needed languange models:

  ollama pull dengcao/Qwen3-Reranker-0.6B:Q8_0  
  ollama pull danielsheep/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct-1M-Unsloth:UD-IQ3_XXS 
  ollama pull hf.co/dat-lequoc/Fast-Apply-1.5B-v1.0_GGUF:latest  
  ollama pull nate/instinct:latest  
  ollama pull nomic-embed-text:latest  
  ollama pull Qwen2.5-coder:1.5b

in %USERPROFILE%.continue\config.yaml (for windows). And probably homefolder/.continue/config.yaml for linux and mac.

name: Local Config
version: 1.0.0
schema: v1
models:
  - name: Autodetect
    provider: ollama
    model: AUTODETECT

    roles:
      - chat
      - edit
      - apply
      - summarize
      - autocomplete
      - rerank
  - name: embeddingsProvider
    provider: lmstudio
    model: text-v2-moeext-embedding-nomic-embed-t
    roles:
      - embed
context:
  - provider: code
  - provider: docs
  - provider: diff
  - provider: terminal
  - provider: problems
  - provider: folder
  - provider: codebase

the following configurations needs to be set in continue extension by selecting open settings from the continue menue (bottom right):

Now you can use continue to tap complete your code but also to chat. To open the chat window you can do the following press CTRL+SHIFT+P then type View: toggle continue. In chat - which you open with CTRL+L - you can type for example type:

please explain me this codebase @Codebase

how does this file work @filename

and click on file.

you can also mark a text and press CTRL+I and say for example: make comments.

Lets make a different thing how about a fibonacci [$f(0)=0, f(1)=1,f(n)=f(n-1)+f(n-2)$] number calculator.

lets make life a bit hard for ai by starting with something completely corrupted:

<!doctype html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>My recipie page</title>
    <scipt>
      //fibonacci function returning n-th fibonacci

  <H1>Recipies</H1>
console.log('Hello');
  <H2>Pancakes</H2>
<p>Ingredients</p>
<ul>
  
</ul>
  <!-- add input field -->
  <input type="number" id="portionInput" name="portionInput">
  <script>
    // Add script to recalculate amounts
    const input = document.getElementById('portionInput');
    input.addEventListener('input', function() {
      // Recalculate amount based on input value
    });
  </script>
</body>
</html>

and just put your cursor where the fibonacci function is and try to press tab to get the results.

Then use the life server extension to see the result. It does not work.

Ask the ai chat to correct it itteratively.

Next we will use an ai coding agent that can even generate complete projects.