Writing a Visual Studio Code extension to chat with your code, an experiment

Chatbots everywhere, handy assistants in applications, AI is booming and particularly generative models. More than a year after the disruptive release of ChatGPT lots has happened. Language models are everywhere and tooling to run these are becoming easier as well. Let’s take one of these local serving models, Ollama and create a Visual Studio Code extension that will use this model server for answering questions about our code base using one of the community AI models.