I am currently spending $10 every day on Claude Sonnet. I am going to be getting a new MacBook Pro in the coming weeks anyways, and was wondering if I could get one with 48+GB of RAM so that I could run local Ollama coding models (in Cline / VS) to save money. Would this work?

So I have had FOMO on claudecode, but I refuse to give them my prompts or pay $100-$200 a month. So 2 days ago, I saw that moonshot provides an anthropic API to kimi k2 so folks could use it with claude code. Well, many folks are already doing that with local. So if you don't know, now you know. This is how I did it in Linux, should be easy to replicate in OSX or Windows with WSL.

Start your local LLM API

Install claude code

install a proxy - https://github.com/1rgs/claude-code-proxy

Edit the server.py proxy and point it to your OpenAI endpoint, could be llama.cpp, ollama, vllm, whatever you are running.

Add the line above load_dotenv
+litellm.api_base = "http://yokujin:8083/v1" # use your localhost name/IP/ports

Start the proxy according to the docs which will run it in localhost:8082

export ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL=http://localhost:8082

export ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN="sk-localkey"

run claude code

I just created my first code then decided to post this. I'm running the latest mistral-small-24b on that host. I'm going to be driving it with various models, gemma3-27b, qwen3-32b/235b, deepseekv3 etc

Hey folks, I'm a self-hosting noob looking for recommendations for good self-hosted/foss/local/private/etc alternative to Claude Code's CLI tool. I recently started using at work and am blown away by how good it is. Would love to have something similar for myself. I have a 12GB VRAM RTX 3060 GPU with Ollama running in a docker container.

I haven't done extensive research to be honest, but I did try searching for a bit in general. I found a tool called Aider that was similar that I tried installing and using. It was okay, not as polished as Claude Code imo (and had a lot of, imo, poor choices for default settings; e.g. auto commit to git and not asking for permission first before editing files).

Anyway, I'm going to keep searching - I've come across a few articles with recommendations but I thought I'd ask here since you folks probably are more in line with my personal philosophy/requirements than some random articles (probably written by some AI itself) recommending tools. Otherwise, I'm going to have to go through these lists and try out the ones that look interesting and potentially liter my system with useless tools lol.

Thanks in advance for any pointers!