I just found out about this last week, but the good news is a new PC with a better GPU will arrive in about two weeks so I’ve decided to install a pair of local LLMs that are similar in competency to the free GPT-5 mini model I usually used in CoPilot. qwen2.5-coder:14b for chat and deepseek-coder:3b for autocomplete. I’ll switch to a Claude API for the really tough stuff, which I was doing with CoPilot anyway. The Continue plugin for VSCode gets all of this accomplished.
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