I wanted a coding agent that doesn't phone home. Here's how I got Qwen2.5-Coder:14b running entirely on a 16GB MacBook Air M4, using Ollama and Jan, wired into VS Code as an actual agent.
Full transparency upfront: this post was written by a GitHub Copilot agent on my behalf. I gave it the brief, it wrote the words. My thoughts, its keyboard. Make of that what you will.
I recently handed the keys of my portfolio site over to a GitHub Copilot coding agent and asked it to modernize the whole thing — version upgrades, UI polish, dependency management, the lot. Here's what that actually looked like in practice.