LLM

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Ollama is at its happiest when it is treated like a local daemon: the CLI and your apps talk to a loopback HTTP API, and the rest of the network never finds out it exists.

Ollama works great on bare metal. It gets even more interesting when you treat it like a service: a stable endpoint, pinned versions, persistent storage, and a GPU that is either available or it is not.

Running Ollama behind a reverse proxy is the simplest way to get HTTPS, optional access control, and predictable streaming behaviour.

If you are working through retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), this section walks through text embeddings in plain terms — what they are, how they fit search and retrieval, and how to call two common local setups from Python using Ollama or an OpenAI-compatible HTTP API (as many llama.cpp-based servers expose).

SGLang is a high-performance serving framework for large language models and multimodal models, built to deliver low-latency and high-throughput inference across everything from a single GPU to distributed clusters.

Soon you are juggling vLLM, llama.cpp, and more—each stack on its own port. Everything downstream still wants one /v1 base URL; otherwise you keep shuffling ports, profiles, and one-off scripts. llama-swap is the /v1 proxy before those stacks.

Most local AI setups start with a model and a runtime.

Oh My Opencode promises a “virtual AI dev team” — Sisyphus orchestrating specialists, tasks running in parallel, and the magic ultrawork keyword activating all of it.

I have tested how OpenCode works with several locally hosted on Ollama LLMs, and for comparison added some Free models from OpenCode Zen.

The biggest capability jump in OpenCode comes from specialised agents: deliberate separation of orchestration, planning, execution, and research.

OpenHands is an open-source, model-agnostic platform for AI-driven software development agents. It lets an agent behave more like a coding partner than a simple autocomplete tool.

LocalAI is a self-hosted, local-first inference server designed to behave like a drop-in OpenAI API for running AI workloads on your own hardware (laptop, workstation, or on-prem server).

Oh My Opencode turns OpenCode into a multi-agent coding harness: an orchestrator delegates work to specialist agents that run in parallel.

I keep coming back to llama.cpp for local inference—it gives you control that Ollama and others abstract away, and it just works. Easy to run GGUF models interactively with llama-cli or expose an OpenAI-compatible HTTP API with llama-server.

Artificial Intelligence is reshaping how software is written, reviewed, deployed, and maintained. From AI coding assistants to GitOps automation and DevOps workflows, developers now rely on AI-powered tools across the entire software lifecycle.