Use of Ollama

Hi,
Is the main purpose of Ollama for developers to experiment with it?
Or is it meant for, say, feeding it a lot of pdfs and ePubs and than ask it question about the subject?

ollama is there for AI models in the same way that podman is there container workloads.

It’s purpose is to give you access to all of the latest models to do what you want, so it’s more analogous to a package manager I suppose.

You can use it for local chat bot stuff, or to build the pdf thing you want. There’s a few extensions out there to connect it to your IDE for local help. I use mods to help me with command line/prompt things. And it’s all local so it’s a really nice way to take advantage of the tech but on your terms.

The list of integrations is a good place to start:

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Thanks.
I’m no developer or programmer, it doesn’t sound like something I will use :-).

Most of the stuff you descibe, I don’t know (container workloads IDEs, mods, … )

But good to know!

I tried to combine mods with ollama, but I always get “Unknown API error.”

Please create a github issue with logs and reproduction steps for debugging

I got it done. I forgot to let you know.

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