A deep dive into the AI coding ecosystem — Claude Code, Google Antigravity, MCP servers, Cursor, Windsurf, Continue.dev, Aider, and running powerful models locally with Ollama and LM Studio.
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AI-Assisted Coding: The Complete Developer's Guide to Tools, Agents, and Local Models -
Jan: The Open-Source Local LLM Runner Coming for Ollama and LM Studio Jan bundles a chat UI, a model hub, and an OpenAI-compatible server on top of a Cortex/llama.cpp engine — Apache 2.0, no account, no telemetry. A hands-on look at where it beats Ollama and LM Studio, where it doesn't, and how to tune it.
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MCP Deep Dive: Servers, Resources, and Tools A thorough technical walkthrough of the Model Context Protocol: how JSON-RPC over stdio and HTTP works, building servers with FastMCP and the TypeScript SDK, implementing tools and resources, the sampling primitive, security threat model, and production deployment patterns.