User struggles with local Ollama tooling for terminal-based coding assistance

A Reddit user reports significant difficulties using OpenCode to connect to a local Ollama proxy on an Apple M3 Ultra 96GB system. Despite having sufficient hardware capacity to run multiple large models, the user finds the experience inferior to GitHub Copilot.

• The user can access models and add custom instructions via OpenCode.
• Even with decent models, the AI requires excessive prompting for basic tasks like listing directories.
• The user failed to get the model to summarize a small Python hello world project.
• The user is seeking advice or better directions for terminal-based local LLM tooling.

The post highlights current limitations in making local Ollama instances function as seamless, autonomous coding assistants within a terminal environment.