Own Your Stack: coding with open models
AI coding assistants are everywhere, but most lock you into proprietary APIs and send your code to the cloud. There's another way. In this talk, we'll explore how to use open-source models with tools like Open Code and Claude Code, either through affordable cloud APIs (Hugging Face, OpenRouter) or running completely offline on your laptop. We'll cover quantization, model formats (GGUF, MLX), and real performance trade-offs for frontend development. Cloud or local? Big model or small? It depends - but with open models, you own the decision.