I only use it for chatting about the code - while this setup also lets the AI edit your code, I don't find the code good enough to risk it. I get more value from reading the thought process, evaluating it, and the cherry picking which bits of its code I really want.
In any case, if that sounds like the experience you want and you already run ollama, you would just need to install the continue.dev VS Code extension, and then go to its settings to configure which models you want in the drop-down.
ollama run hf.co/MaziyarPanahi/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3-GGUF:IQ1_M ollama run deepseek-r1:32b
They dropped the Qwen/Llama terms from the stringhttps://ollama.com/library/deepseek-r1:32b
https://ollama.com/library/deepseek-r1:32b-qwen-distill-q4_K...
I prefer to use the longer name, so I know which model I'm running. In this particular case, it's confusing that they grouped the qwen and llama fine tunes with R1, because they're not R1.