Documentation on how to use?

[sherodtaylor]

I've downloaded ollama I'm not sure what i'm expecting to happen I've pulled the model locally. There is no guidance on what is expected to happen or how to use?

Is it supposed to run on save is there a way to run a command or activate generate?

[sccrosby]

I was wondering the same thing. Once you start the ollama service, e.g. brew services start ollama, it will be running in the background. Then start up vscode with the extension. Go to th extension settings as select a model, e.g. codellama:7b-code-q4_K_M it will download (4GB) and then start suggestion autocompletes. Unfortunately I found this setup on my computer (M1, 32GB ram) to be too slow to be useful compared to copilot, codeium, etc...

[sherodtaylor]

^ so i got it to work it was a bit slow but works on tab completion. I also found looking at the logs helps. I think if there was some notification or like thinking gear it might help with ui interaction

[ex3ndr]

@sherodtaylor in fact there IS a loading gear in the bottom! This is the only UI is implemented now.

[sherodtaylor]

Oh nice! I’m wondering about like a gear cursor cause the loading on the bottom is hidden.

[prabbit237]

Ok, I STILL don't see what it's doing/supposed to do. I loaded it up in a virgin install of VSCode, along with PlatformIO and C/C++ and nothing else. I start typing a line and get two suggestions for digitalW... as shown. I disable llama coder and try typing the same digitalW and get the same two suggestions. If I hit TAB, in either case, I get "digitalWrite" and then.....nothing(?)

So what is it supposed to actually DO?

If I go to powershell and run ollama and type digitalwrite and hit , I actually get something useful (well, maybe not useful, in this case, but at least something applicable. And with a bit of oddity when I make a typo.)

What I was expecting is something like Cody-AI (even if not as full-featured.)

[prabbit237]

Never mind...apparently my setup is just being extremely slow. But after letting it sit, I did get some sort of a response.

[mediashock]

Is there a way to choose the completions? or you only get one? I cant seem to generate different results.