Building a local-first AI coding assistant with unlimited completions and zero cloud dependencies

GitHub Copilot costs $10-19/month. Cursor is $20/month. Every AI coding assistant I know of has one thing in common: your code goes to a remote server for inference. That bothers me more than the cost. When you paste a function into Copilot to ask for a refactor, that code leaves your machine and goes to Microsoft's servers. For most hobby projects that's fine. For anything with sensitive business logic, proprietary algorithms, or customer data — it's a problem many developers quietly accept. I built guIDE to be different. The core promise: your code never leaves your machine guIDE runs AI inference locally using llama.cpp under the hood. The models run on your CPU or GPU. No API calls. No outbound requests for inference. The code you write and the questions you ask stay on your machine. This means: No API key needed — nothing to sign up for, no billing to manage Unlimited completions — your quota is your hardware, not a monthly token limit Works offline — plane mode, mountain cabin, c