Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?

Re:Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model... by dheera on Monday June 15, 2026 @02:02PM (#48544904)

Am I doing something wrong or has ollama become shittified?

I'm looking at https://ollama.com/search and the top few models like kimi-k2.7-code say "cloud" and I can't seem to ollama pull them.

I thought the whole POINT of ollama was not-cloud?

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Re:Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model... by hoherd on Monday June 15, 2026 @02:26PM (#48545179)

I experienced the same situation a month or two ago. One of my friends sent me this article that was illuminating. https://sleepingrobots.com/dreams/stop-using-ollama/

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Re:Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model... by jubilanti on Monday June 15, 2026 @04:01PM (#48546299)

> I thought the whole POINT of ollama was not-cloud?

It was at first, then the developers realized they had a massive userbase they could monetize. A tale as old as open source...

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Re:Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model... by satvikpendem on Monday June 15, 2026 @02:10PM (#48545001)

Ollama is not recommended to be used. Use llama.cpp.

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Re:Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model... by jmorgan on Monday June 15, 2026 @02:38PM (#48545301)

The larger models are available on Ollama's cloud as most folks don't have the hardware to run 500B-1T parameter models.

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Re:Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model... by toyg on Monday June 15, 2026 @02:20PM (#48545124)

Yes, you've nailed it. Ollama are desperately trying to pull a Cursor - like 3791 other projects in this space.

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