Author(s): Fabio Matricardi Originally published on Towards AI. You can have a coding assistant on your local pc. I tested VScode with deepseek-coder and llama.cpp. And AI coding it is not easy as they claim… This member-only story is on us. Upgrade to access all of Medium. a humanoid robot and a man, standing in front of a big screen with python code. The robot point its finger to the screen where there is a glowing red section of the code. american comic style — generated with this method Having an AI as a coding assistant is all over the news and social media platform. You probably may have also watched some of these guys creating a revolutionary website or app in 5 minutes without even writing one line of code. It may be true… but as usual I don’t trust blindly any claim. And since I am a programmer, I hardly believe that you can write whatever application without knowing what a Generative AI is doing for you. I tried to connect my local Visual Studio Code to llama.cpp, and I found a way to do it 100% for free. It runs locally on my computer, with no internet connection required… and it works even if you don’t have a dedicated or powerful GPU. The results are not what I was expecting though. Even trying to write a simple python program was not that easy at all! If you don’t believe… Read the full blog for free on Medium. Join thousands of data leaders on the AI newsletter. Join over 80,000 subscribers and keep up to date with the latest developments in AI. From research to projects and ideas. If you are building an AI startup, an AI-related product, or a service, we invite you to consider becoming a sponsor. Published via Towards AI
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