IDE with Locall LLMs?

What IDE are you using. its another problem area for me . I usually use VSCode , but with local llms I have not found an extension which works optimally VSCode CoPilot chat with Ollama: CoPilot bloats up the prompt immensely , it mostly just never responds back. Cline again bloats up prompts , goes in looping and thinking. responds quite late. With its online models its quite fast and useful. ZooCode - This is usable and works fine for most models. But when using oMLX , i kept getting errors on reaching model limits. I noticed in the "Preview Prompt" that ZooCode also adds long system prompts using up almost 4K tokens. Continue - This is the fastest in responding , but lack features to read, edit files as Copilot/Cline/ZooCode. I have tried other editors as well: Zed: AI Chat gives experience like Continue and works best. However it has a memory leak problem. When using 26B Model, the model went into loop, Zed started using 11GB of RAM. Restarting Zed didn't help, I had to delete all previous AI Chat history, even after that it used 5GB. Eventually i cleared all its SQLLite files , then RAM usage dropped to 200MB. Void (VSCode Fork): Worked OK, but went into loop due to small contextSize. I couldn't find an option to change its size in settings. Also the repo is now deprecated. submitted by /u/Shinusfin [link] [comments]

Source: r/ollama | 2026-08-08