alt Hacker NewsOllama or LM Studio are very simple to setup.
You're probably not going to get anything working well as an agent on an M2 MacBook, but smaller models do surprisingly well for focused autocomplete. Maybe the Qwen3.5 9B model would run decently on your system?
Right - setting up LM studio is not hard. But how do I connect LM Studio to Copilot, or set up an agent?