Programming · Tabnews · 🇧🇷 Brazil
Set up a 100% local AI coding environment
A junior developer integrated local models into VS Code with Ollama and Cline, with no paid APIs.
- Profession
- Developer
- Tools
- Ollama, Cline, VS Code
- Source
- tabnews.com.br ↗
- Country
- 🇧🇷 Brazil
- Report date
- June 12, 2026
- Verified on
- October 24, 2026
What they did
Set up a local coding agent in VS Code.
How it went
The account gives no numbers.
Good to know
Local AI keeps client code on your machine, which is useful for contracts with confidentiality clauses.
The prompt
Guide me through setting up [Ollama + Cline] in VS Code on [operating system] with a model that fits in [RAM] of memory. One step at a time.
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