Use aider for free with your local LLMs or cheaply with OpenRouter

Many people use LLM (Large Language Models) services to code at work but don’t necessarily see a path to use them at home on a budget. Here are two quick recipes: one for a fully local, privacy-focused setup, and another using OpenRouter. Local LLMs Make sure you have ollama installed and running. Note down a wich model(s) you have installed and plan to use. We’ll use deepseek-r1 and qwen2.5-coder…