I’d like to set up a local coding assistant so that I can stop using Google to ask complex questions to for search results.

I really don’t know what I’m doing or if there’s anything that’s available that respects privacy. I don’t necessarily trust search results for this kind of query either.

I want to run it on my desktop, Ryzen 7 5800xt + Radeon RX 6950xt + 32gb of RAM. I don’t need or expect data center performance out of this thing.

Something like LM Studio and Qwen sounds like it’s what I’m looking for, but since I’m unfamiliar with what exists I figured I would ask for Lemmy’s opinion.

Is LM Studio + Qwen a good combo for my needs? Are there alternatives?

  • Shimitar@downonthestreet.euEnglish
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    2 hours ago

    My recent experience regarding questions on documentation:

    • dovecot: shitty useless responses, totally made up
    • Gentoo linux: to be checked twice and mostly wrong or fake
    • godot: accurate and correct almost always, maybe examples not always 100% correct
    • C++ standard 17: correct, never had a wrong reply from llm, also the exact ples where on point and correct

    I think that’s all what I have used it for in the last six months.

    Note: I used only Google search AI llm, nothing else.

    So it seems that depends on what you ask.