Zero-Cost AI Pair Programming: Mastering 'Aider' with Local LLMs (Ollama)

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<p>Want an AI coding assistant that works on YOUR codebase, respects YOUR git history, and doesn't send your code to the cloud? Aider + Ollama gives you exactly that.</p> <p>Aider

<p><strong>TL;DR:</strong> I built the same browser agent twice — once with 500 lines of Python, once with 7 lines of JSON. The second one took 5 minutes. The agent harness layer