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Who is using Ollama day-to-day?

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by brauhaus

9 hours ago

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I maintain a Chrome extension that adds an AI support to any input field online.

One of my favorite reviews is a 2-star review asking for “local model support”.

My first reaction was: who installs a 100KB Chrome extension to talk to a 10GB model running locally?

But it did make me curious. Are people actually running Ollama or LM Studio as part of their daily workflow?

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manishrana

6 hours ago

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I am running but it is only useful for very easy conference tasks, or either it needs a very high computing power. Currently I was running on a 32GB Mac Studio M1, and I mostly use it for generating commit messages.

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raxxorraxor

8 hours ago

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Yes, I do. It is quite helpful. For main coding tasks I use Claude, but if my credits vanish or I have enough time to get an answer, I use Ollama extensively. I would recommend for developers to maintain their own AI pipeline as well.

For anything dealing with personal data, like browser inputs, I would exclusively use local models too. Probably still niche, but non-local AI would be a deal breaker for me for both browsers and OS.