"It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change." - Charles Darwin
Hello data delvers! It's been some time but I'm back with more delves! In the time since my previous delve the landscape for local llm development has already shifted quite a bit so I want to come back with a refreshed setup guide!
"The right tool doesn't just make a job easier; it changes how you think about the problem." - Gemini 3
Hello data delvers! Though I am cautiously skeptical of the hype around AI, one area that I have seen my own productivity increase is by leveraging AI as a pair programmer. Up until this point, I have primarily relied on Github Copilot as my AI assistant. However, I recently gave Claude Code a try at work and was pleasantly surprised at its ability to go beyond what I had seen from Copilot and really "pair" with me. Based on these results, I resolved to set it up on my own machine to use for my personal projects. However, not wanting to spend money on tokens I wanted to be able to run an LLM locally and connect it to Claude Code. Fortunately with the latest release of Ollama this is a pretty straightforward thing to do!