Ollama

In How to Stretch Cursor Pro Further, I argued for treating Cursor as the execution layer and routing planning, research, and cheap thinking elsewhere. Ollama got a few paragraphs — enough to explain why local models belong in the pipeline, not enough to actually set them up. This post is the missing piece: install Ollama on Manjaro, pick models for your hardware, and connect local agents that can read your repo, edit files, and run commands without sending code to a cloud API. ...

I use Cursor every day across a lot of codebases — not just one repo. At work that is mostly a large Angular/Nx monorepo plus many smaller web projects. At home it is broader still: playground companion repos tied to omid.dev articles, browser demos on playground.omid.dev, Rust/WASM experiments, Linux tooling, and whatever the next post needs. Agent mode, multi-file refactors, and inline edits are genuinely faster than doing the same work by hand on any of them. ...