Seriously? More Open Source LLMs.
Right, so some people decided OpenAI’s closed-source crap wasn’t enough of a headache and are now messing with their “open weight” models – GPT-OSS20 and GPT-OSS120. Apparently, they want to run these things locally. Like that’s going to solve anything.
The article details how to download these behemoths using Ollama (another thing to install and probably break), and then – get this – try to use them with VS Code and GitHub Copilot. Because, naturally, everyone wants a local, potentially-slower, less reliable version of something that works perfectly fine in the cloud. Idiots.
It walks you through setting up Ollama, pulling down the models (expect long download times, because *of course* they’re huge), and then configuring VS Code to point at your local instance. There’s a bunch of YAML file editing involved, naturally. Because everything has to be needlessly complicated.
The author even tries to make it sound useful for offline coding or privacy concerns. Yeah, good luck with that when you inevitably have to debug why the thing is spewing out garbage because your hardware can’t handle it. And don’t even *think* about security; running random models locally is a fantastic way to introduce vulnerabilities.
Honestly, if you need this, you probably already know too much about Linux and have far too much time on your hands. Just use the cloud version like a normal person. But hey, go ahead, waste your weekend. Don’t come crying to me when it all goes sideways.
Related Anecdote: Back in ’98, some bright spark decided we needed a local caching DNS server on a Solaris box. “For performance!” they said. Three days later, the entire network was down because he’d misconfigured it and it was poisoning everything. This feels…familiar.
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