Local AI use cases with Continue

Continue is an open-source AI coding extension for VS Code and JetBrains. It can use local models served by Ollama for chat, edits and autocomplete.

2 real examples, each linked to its original source.

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Hybrid workflow: local for private and repetitive, cloud for hard

A Linux sysadmin stopped trying to replace cloud LLMs. Ollama now handles private docs, overnight article summaries and VS Code autocomplete.

XDA Developers · 2026-05-11

Copilot-style coding assistant from a headless RTX 3090 box

qwen2.5-coder:7b on a home server, reached from a laptop over an SSH tunnel and wired into VS Code through Continue for chat, edits and autocomplete.

Arul Selvam Periyasamy