This post is highly work-in-progress; gathering thoughts and ideas for now. Goal # build a near-equivalent of Claude using locally served models using Ollama evaluate how close or far they are from, say, Sonnet 4.6 Mise-en-scène # Pieces:
Chat tools # Did a bit of research (Gemini), and suggestions are:
oterm: best all around, for general chat aichat: power-user choice, good for coding mods: nice, but more pure CLI tool elia: similar to oterm, but maybe better? If I can get it running… oterm # To install oterm, best to: