The open source coding assistants that work with local models, how they compare with Claude Code, Copilot and Codex, and how I run OpenCode with Ollama.
The forward deployed engineer is suddenly tech's hottest role. What FDEs actually do, what is expected of them, and the technical, product and human skills the job demands, from a practitioner who does forward-deployed AI work.
AI assistants write fluent Laravel code that hides the security mistakes the framework prevents. How AI code generation changes the risk picture, a review workflow for what the assistant hands you, and how it connects to the book You Are the Quality Control.
I use AI coding tools every day, I help teams adopt them, and I wrote a book about staying safe while doing it. So let me say this clearly at the start: the security risks…
Run large language models on your own machine with Ollama — and offload the big ones to the cloud — with install steps, the local API, and Ollama Cloud.
Install and sign in to the OpenAI Codex CLI, the terminal coding agent — with notes on approval modes and staying in control.
Get GitHub Copilot running in VS Code and JetBrains — prerequisites, sign-in, and how to use inline suggestions and chat.
A step-by-step guide to installing and signing in to Claude Code, Anthropic's agentic coding tool for the terminal.