The original headline is: "Run Qwen Coder & DeepSeek Locally: The 2026 Free AI Pair-Programmer Setup"

Short summary

A practical guide to running Qwen2.5-Coder and DeepSeek-Coder-V2 locally using Ollama and Continue.dev, replacing paid Copilot subscriptions entirely. Covers model selection by RAM constraints, quantization tradeoffs, and a complete config.yaml setup for dual-model workflows (1.5B for autocomplete, 7B for chat). Includes honest assessment of quality and latency tradeoffs versus cloud alternatives.

• •Free local AI pair-programmer setup using Ollama and Continue.dev
• •Model selection guide by RAM: 1.5B for autocomplete, 7B for chat, DeepSeek-V2 for hard reasoning
• •Complete config.yaml and installation steps for VS Code and JetBrains

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