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Cline VS Code Extension With Local LLM
Cline is a VS Code extension that turns any LLM endpoint into a coding agent. I wired it to a local Ollama Qwen 2.5 7B and ran a week of work without a single API call.
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Cline is a VS Code extension that turns any LLM endpoint into a coding agent. I wired it to a local Ollama Qwen 2.5 7B and ran a week of work without a single API call.

Continue is the open-source alternative to Cursor and Copilot. I run it in VS Code on Linux and IntelliJ IDEA on the same projects. This is the config that survived the move.

Roo Code is the Cline fork that added modes, custom agents, and a different prompt strategy. I ran both side by side for a week. Here is what I learned about when each is the right pick.