A comparative guide for developers seeking a private, free alternative to GitHub Copilot. Contrasts the polished experience of Cursor with the DIY flexibility of VS Code + Continue.
Key Sections:
1. **The Privacy Imperative:** Why send code to the cloud if you don’t have to?
2. **Setup Guide:** Configuring Ollama with DeepSeek-Coder-V2.
3. **Integration:** Setting up the ‘Continue’ extension in VS Code. Connecting context providers.
4. **The Cursor Alternative:** How Cursor’s local mode compares (pros/cons).
5. **Quality Comparison:** Side-by-side code completions from local 7B models vs GPT-4o.
**Internal Linking Strategy:** Link to Pillar. Link to ‘Benchmarking Local Models’. Link to ‘Claude Code’ pulse article.
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Local AI Coding Assistant: Cursor vs VS Code + Ollama + Continue
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