How To Integrate a Local LLM Into VS Code

If your IDE of choice is VS Code and you’ve wondered what it would be like to use it with a localized AI large language model (LLM), you’re in luck.

But why would you do this?

Well, you might want to make use of AI to enhance your workflow, help debug your code or even learn a new programming language. For whatever reason you have, integrating VS Code with a local LLM like Ollama (my go-to AI) is not nearly as hard as you might think it would be. The end result is a powerful tool you can leverage for whatever coding or coding-adjacent…