Vibe Coding Era is Here but Still Not Free

Some setups to test vibe coding power of current tools (amongst tools not of big techs, Cline and Continue+Ollama are popular):

1. Antigravity (with Gemini 3 inside -- not free)
2. VS Code (with Cline -- FREE for local model)
3. VS Code (with Continue+Ollama -- FREE for local model)

Antigravity with Gemini 3 (or Claude Sonnet)

• Comprehensive, at engineer level to follow instruction to code/edit features
• Good to work with this engineer level for a few hours and allowance runs out!

Antigravity (or) VS Code, with Cline

• Cline extension installable on both VS Code and Antigravity
• Cline extension auth fails (currently Jan 2026)
  OR: TRY AGAIN LATER

VS Code with Continue+Ollama

• Continue extension UI tells to download Ollama & models, this is clear how to use.
• Ollama is shipped with Vulkan (see in Ollama installation dir) means it can use GPU
  (download GPU-Z to run along Ollama to see if GPU used)
• However, a GPU of 4GB VRAM won't be enough for Llama 3.1 8B (suggested by Continue)
• Results:
• Slow processing of prompts
• Low comprehension
  eg. only 'dev' command in package.json but agent suggests 'npm run start'
• Feels like one should code by himself better.

Suggestions to anyone want to run vibe coding locally:

• Buy a GPU with huge VRAM, not the latest generation (not needed)