🔧 qwen2.5-coder is too slow for Claude Code on a Mac. Here's the fix.

Claude Code does not care where the model lives. Point it at a local model and it works with no network. I tested that at 35,000 feet, picked the wrong model first, and swapped mid-flight.




TL;DR



Claude Code reads two environment variables to decide where its model lives. Point them at Ollama and it runs fully offline.
I tested this on...