Your paid AI coding tools are overkill — here's what I switched to instead
…Zed is closer to the former side, but with an AI chat window that can draw from a multitude of providers, including locally hosted LLMs, to save cash and your privacy. That…
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Replacing paid productivity apps with a self-hosted setup helped me save money, but I had to make some compromises
…Likewise, since my data remains entirely on my local servers, I don’t have to worry about large corporations gaining access to private files and using them to train AI features that…