Putting the GPU to Work: Running Local LLMs on a Home Lab

Yesterday we went from a gaming PC on a shelf to a fully configured Coder server with GitHub integration, workspace templates, and AI agents. The dev environment is running. But the RTX 5090's 32 GB of VRAM has been sitting idle, and all the AI work is still going through cloud APIs. Today, we change that. This session was about installing Ollama, choosing the right models for different coding tasks, getting local inference running on the workstation, and then wiring it all into Coder Agents so...