For the last year Copilot completions have been slow, unreliable and just bad, coming in at random moments, messing up syntax in dumb ways, being slow and sometimes not showing up at all. It has been painfully bad even though it used to be good. Maybe it's since they switched from Codex to the general GPTs ...
I used the recommended models and couldn't figure it out, I assume I did something wrong but I followed the docs and triple checked everything. It'd be nice to use the GPU I have locally for faster completions/privacy, I just haven't found a way to do that.
Additionally, I've tried a bunch of these (even the same models, etc) and they've all sucked compared to Copilot. And believe me, I want that local-hosted sweetness. Not sure what I'm doing wrong when others are so excited by it.
And at some point I asked to change a pretty large file in some way. It started processing, very very slowly and I couldn't figure out a way to stop it. Had to restart VS Code as it still kept changing the file 10 minutes later.
Copilot was also very slow when I tried it yesterday but at least there was a clear way to stop it.
(Assuming your computer has the specs necessary to run ollama)
The sibling comment also describes the process for chat, which I personally don’t care about.