I'm just getting started using local LLMs for code. I'm not interested vibe coding, but I am hoping to increase my productivity in the publish or perish world of academia. My existing code from past projects is a mess and LLMs often fail to understand my code because I work with niche models, don't comment much, and sometimes have misleading variable names that LLMs over index on (if I redesign things as I learn new information I might not rename variables as I change their use). So, I'm moving ...