Qwen Setup for Mac + Visual Studio Code

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Qwen Setup for Mac + Visual Studio Code

• Qwen (quen3:8b): an LLM with 8 billion learned parameters in memory. Executing directly on the CPU/GPU inside your machine. No cloud server is involved once the model is downloaded.
• Ollama: software that makes it easy to download, run, and manage AI models locally on your computer.

Install and Run Ollama + Qwen

brew install ollama
ollama --version

Download and run Qwen

Note This will allow you to run in terminal but will not be able to edit/create files.

ollama run qwen3:8b

List models

ollama list

Remove model

ollama rm qwen3:8b

Using with VS Code for editing

Install Continue extension.

In VScode, Cmd+Shift+P -> Continue: Open Settings -> Configs -> Main Config

name: local
version: 1.0.0
schema: v1

models:
  - name: qwen
    provider: ollama
    model: qwen3:8b

context:
  - provider: code

... should save as ~/.continue/config.yaml