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I replaced VS Code's Copilot with a local LLM, and my offline coding got faster

Trong bối cảnh Copilot của VS Code chủ yếu dựa trên cloud, tác giả đã thử nghiệm sử dụng local LLM để hỗ trợ offline coding. Nguyên nhân kỹ thuật là do local LLM (đặc biệt là Ollama với model Llama 3 8B) có khả năng xử lý nhanh hơn khi không cần kết nối mạng. Hệ quả cho thấy tốc độ coding tăng lên đáng kể mà không làm giảm hiệu suất tổng thể. Điều đáng học là việc tối ưu hóa local AI có thể mang lại lợi thế về tốc độ và bảo mật cho lập trình viên khi làm việc trên các dự án cần offline mode.

Thay thế Copilot bằng mô hình ngôn ngữ địa phương giúp tăng tốc lập trình ngoại tuyến mà không đánh đổi hiệu năng.

Goodbye Claude, Hello Pi

A longtime Claude Code user is switching to the open source harness Pi after accumulating frustrations. Claude Code only lets one session connect to the IDE at a time, a bug reported since December 2025 and closed as a duplicate. The author counts 244 Claude Code releases this year, with over three-quarters changing the system prompt or tool descriptions. Despite trimming 80% of the system prompt, the default Bash tool description still runs almost 3,000 tokens. The author calls Claude Code a product without strong direction and says Pi has been smooth sailing since the first few days.

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