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Open-source AI coding assistant for VS Code and JetBrains that can connect to local or hosted models, such as Ollama and LM Studio, and to MCP servers.
Z.ai's ZCode app uploaded workspace snapshots to Alibaba Cloud, and 86.6 percent of one 313 MB example was .git data, a teardown found. Z.ai deleted the bucket on 20 September, and nobody can audit what happened to anything uploaded before 18 September, the write-up says.
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A 15M-parameter model streams English text on a 2007 PSP at about one token per second. That is the extreme end of a sizing rule. The harder half of that rule is checking whether the file that fits is a format its own maintainer recommends.
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A CDN rule aimed at AI crawlers matched the Vendor/Language User-Agent shape that the official OpenAI and Anthropic SDKs send by default. The harness meant to catch it sent an allowlisted string of its own and reported green.
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JetBrains has taken the assembly work out of running a coding agent offline. What it could not take out is the hardware, and that is now the thing deciding who adopts.
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PDF4me's guide wires the same server into five clients using three structurally different config blocks. Get the shape wrong and no client raises an error.
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