A guide to ethical vibe coding with local models

gilles@gagniard.org (Gilles Gagniard) — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0200

Introduction

This article is a practical guide to installing Large Language Models on your own hardware, along with local inference tools, and use them for assisted software development through locally executed agents.

It is primarily oriented toward Linux users; the same tools are available on macOS as well so it shouldn’t be too complex to adapt.

Why local ?

It is nearly certain that Generative AI is a financial bubble waiting to burst at any moment, and that the environmental impacts of AI data centers hosting frontier models are completely unsustainable for generating slop pictures and replacing what used to be simple web searches.

Mozilla Corporation is toast (?)

gilles@gagniard.org (Gilles Gagniard) — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 20:16:50 +0100

Caveat

I’m a nobody having an uneducated opinion on matters exceeding by far the reach of my comprehension skills. Because we’re on the Internet (c), I’m therefore more than fully qualified to express it!

So what’s happening?