Firstly, I am not sure what AI did to generate that title image!

As mentioned in the shameless plug, I will be starting to do some further deep dives/one-to-one things soon via Patreon… if you are interested of course! (see links below).

Anyway, plugging aside, I did a video a few months ago about Cursor AI (a VS Code based AI editor) and using local LLMs. Although you can use local LLMs (via Ollama or LMStudio etc.), the experience wasn’t very connecting :)

VOID AI Editor addresses this. In fact, it is an open-sourced version of Cursor AI, still based on VS Code, but absolutely does integrate directly with local LLMs such as Llama 4, DeepSeek etc.

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So, if you code (including “Vibe Coding” if you must!) or are just a “fiddler” (like myself!) then you have no doubt used some sort of code editor.

Because I mostly live in a Microsoft world, Visual Studio (as of this recording, v 2022) has been my mainstay. But what about cross platform editors (and indeed IDEs - Integrated Development Environments)? and, given all of the choices around us, what about other vendors?

That is what we are talking about this time on JFM! :)

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Oh, and yes, I have ended up on YouTube (doesn’t everyone eventually?):

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Unicorn University:

https://applied-ai-services.kit.com/020c6040f2

Oh yes, jumping on the band wagon again!

Open AI released a whole lot of updated models and so on last week. But one tool (in preview) jumped out. Open AI Codex CLI.

Now, from first impressions, this looks and feels a lot like Anthropic Claude Code that I looked at a few weeks back. But hey, everyone copies everyone right?

Anyway, it is more of a “technical” thing to use but you really don’t have to be super technical. It, like Claude Code, generated very clean code based on just a couple of prompts.

Anyway, take a listen for more :)

Some links from the show:

Open AI Codex CLI - Getting Started

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Unicorn University:

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