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Backseat Pilot

Backseat Pilot

matthoffner

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160 installs
| (1) | Free
Tool to help use local LLM with vscode.
Installation
Launch VS Code Quick Open (Ctrl+P), paste the following command, and press enter.
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💺 backseat-pilot 💺

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=matthoffner.backseat-pilot

This is less auto-complete and more auto-fill, thus the "backseat".

server

Originally based on llama-cpp-python (v1/completions) server example.

extension

cmd + shift + p => settings json

"backseat-pilot.url": "http://localhost:8000/v1/completions"

Publish your own version

npx vsce package

usage

Commands based on ai_extension_vscode.

cmd + shift + p => LLM Chat, LLM Refactor, LLM Description 2 Code

other models/projects to try

🧙‍♂️ wizardcoder (try here https://huggingface.co/spaces/matthoffner/wizardcoder-ggml)

💫 starchat beta (try here https://huggingface.co/spaces/matthoffner/starchat-beta)

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