--- title: "Local AI Master Class - Setup, Software, Agentic, Autocomplete, Chat" url: https://daily.dev/posts/local-ai-master-class---setup-software-agentic-autocomplete-chat-avpqlcfdm source_url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UngVdAsQEiU type: video:youtube source: "Web Dev Simplified" published: 2026-05-12T16:04:56.935Z updated: 2026-06-18T02:15:09.841Z tags: ["ai-assisted-development", "llm", "lm-studio", "local-ai"] reading_time: 44 upvotes: 5 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Local AI Master Class - Setup, Software, Agentic, Autocomplete, Chat **[Web Dev Simplified](https://daily.dev/sources/wds)** · 44 min read · 5 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A comprehensive guide to running AI models entirely locally on your own hardware, covering model selection based on VRAM and parameters, quantization levels, and mixture-of-experts (MoE) models. Shows how to set up LM Studio as a local inference server, then connect it to VS Code via the Continue extension for autocomplete and agentic coding, GitHub Copilot's local model support, and the Pi CLI tool for terminal-based agent workflows. Includes practical benchmarks comparing GPU-only vs. RAM-overflow performance, and a real-world vibe-coding demo generating a Sudoku app locally. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [The Complete Guide to Running AI Locally: Everything You Need to Know Before You Start](https://daily.dev/posts/the-complete-guide-to-running-ai-locally-everything-you-need-to-know-before-you-start-3weeeznf1) · Medium · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ai-assisted-development](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-assisted-development), [#llm](https://daily.dev/tags/llm), [#lm-studio](https://daily.dev/tags/lm-studio), [#local-ai](https://daily.dev/tags/local-ai) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/local-ai-master-class---setup-software-agentic-autocomplete-chat-avpqlcfdm)