Tutorial: Running Free Local LLMs with LM Studio and Calling via Python

On November 6, 2026, the AI section of DEV Community published a hands-on tutorial aimed at non-developers titled "How to run free AI models locally with LM Studio and call them from Python." The piece, which originally appeared on garystow.co.uk, walks readers through deploying a free, open-source large model on a personal computer and setting up a local server with LM Studio.

The author describes running most of the AI work done by his home automation teams on a model hosted on his own PC rather than in the cloud. His website team's weekly review, a news digest, and an assistant named Wade all talk to a local model through LM Studio, which means none of that work costs anything in tokens. The guide shows how to set up the same thing from scratch, get a first answer back in Python, and then continue by copying the script and swapping in models. The screenshots come from the author's own LM Studio setup, with red boxes highlighting the controls readers need to click. According to the published material, this is the extent of what has been reported so far, and no follow-up coverage has appeared yet.