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by raxxorraxor 98 days ago
Yes, I do. It is quite helpful. For main coding tasks I use Claude, but if my credits vanish or I have enough time to get an answer, I use Ollama extensively. I would recommend for developers to maintain their own AI pipeline as well.

For anything dealing with personal data, like browser inputs, I would exclusively use local models too. Probably still niche, but non-local AI would be a deal breaker for me for both browsers and OS.

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I'm curious what the workflow actually looks like for people running Ollama day-to-day.

Do you mostly use it through the terminal, a UI like Open WebUI, or via integrations with other tools?

I’m trying to understand where a browser integration would actually fit - if at all

I use Cursor for Claude mostly, I just like it better than the claude console version for some reason. For Ollama I switch to VSCode and use roo code/cline mostly.

I have some a Gitea/Playwright mcp/webservice setup, which works well with both. But for that latter, I tend to restrict it to local models.