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AI Pair Programming in Your Terminal with Aider and Ollama (opens in new tab)

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Want an AI coding assistant that works on YOUR codebase, respects YOUR git history, and doesn't send your code to the cloud? Aider + Ollama gives you exactly that. Aider is an AI pair programming tool that works directly in your terminal. It sees your files, understands your git repo, and makes real edits to your code. Paired with Ollama running a local model, you get a fully private coding assistant. Prerequisites GPU: RTX 3090 or 4090 with 16GB+ VRAM (for Qwen3 Coder 30B at Q4) Software: Py...

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