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Ollama
Run open models locally, with a simple developer-friendly interface.
Artificial intelligence
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I use Ollama (CLI and their npm as a dev) + HF because it just works.Read the full discussion
> There are plenty of user friendly GUIs or wrappers for it That's why I use Ollama.Read the full discussion
I find that agentic work and development is a mixture of agents and workflows outside of this project and I use all of them openai, anthropic , ollama etc..Read the full discussion
And I’ve just been using the usually neutered ollama version.Read the full discussion
I use Owen on my MacBook m1 (16gb) daily, running inside Ollama.Read the full discussion
I use llama-swap to emulate the Ollama experience.Read the full discussion
Highly recommend just dropping Ollama.Read the full discussion
I’ve been using Ollama for months because it ‘just worked,’Read the full discussion
I use Ollama in a non root podman instance.Read the full discussion
Chat, say, through ollama works well.Read the full discussion
I use Ollama and kinda just assumed that Ollama would have everything except for context length (which I've explicitly overwritten) setup properly for me.Read the full discussion
We use Ollama's gemma4 model as the LLM, LangChain to communicate with the model, and Obsidian to view the generated markdown documents.Read the full discussion
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