How I Escaped Claude & Cursor Limits: The Ultimate Free Local AI Coding Setup with Ollama + Continue.dev (2026 Guide)

As a developer, I got tired of waiting 5 days for Claude resets and burning through Cursor’s $20 credit pool. I was building an editorial platform and I was at a critical point where I was developing a new feature that involved build on the admin, server and the platform concurrently for complete context and I was hit with the weekly limit by Claude right in the middle of it, having to wait 5 days because of the context. Frustrating ! ! ! I'm building at senior engineering level with Claude'...