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by l-albertovich 399 days ago
I've just installed it and tried to have it create a hello world using gemma3:27b-it-qat through ollama but it refused to do it claiming it doesn't have access to my filesystem.

Then I opened an existing file and asked it to modify a function to return a fixed value and it did the same.

I'm an absolute newb in this space so if I'm doing something stupid I'd appreciate it if you helped me correct it because I already had the C/C++ extension complain that it can only be used in "proper vscode" (I imported my settings from vscode using the wizard) and when this didn't work either it didn't spark joy as Marie Kondo would say.

Please don't get me wrong, I gave this a try because I like the idea of having a proper local open source IDE where I can run my own models (even if it's slower) and have control over my data. I'm genuinely interested in making this work.

Thanks!

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Thanks for writing! Can you try mentioning the file with "@"? Smaller models sometimes don't realize that they should look for files and folders, but "@" always gives the full context of whatever is in the file/folder directly to them.

Small OSS models are going to get better at this when there's more of a focus on tool-use, which we're expecting in the next iteration of models.

That's what happen? Also happens with cascade base when using windsurf, need a ./ Prefix for it to get the file