I finally set up a local coding assistant that works inside my editor — this stack is gold

I’ve been vibe-coding and using AI assistants for a while now. As useful as that is, including times when ChatGPT told me no when working on a project, the subscriptions add up quickly. The bigger problem, however, is the nagging feeling that every snippet of code I write is being sent to a remote server I have no control over. For personal projects, that’s a minor annoyance. For anything professional or sensitive, that’s a dealbreaker.