Self-Hosting Ollama for Code Assistance: 2026 Hardware and Setup Guide
Self-hosting a local LLM for code assistance is finally a serious alternative to GitHub Copilot in 2026 — Qwen2.5-Coder, DeepSeek-Coder-V2, and Code Llama 70B all run usefully on a workstation. This is a practical setup guide: hardware that actually works, models that are worth the disk space, latency expectations against cloud Copilot, IDE integration via continue.dev, and the privacy and cost math that determines whether self-hosting makes sense for you or your team.</p>...
