Making Ollama Play Nice with Everyone
Today brought some fantastic integration improvements to Ollama! The standout feature is a brand new `ollama config` command that makes it super easy to connect Ollama with popular tools like Claude, Codex, and Droid. Plus, we got some sweet image generation enhancements and those little quality-of-life fixes that make everything feel more polished.
Duration: PT4M
Episode overview
This episode is a short developer briefing from Ollama.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: Ollama
- Published: 2026-01-23T11:05:03Z
- Audio duration: PT4M
Transcript excerpt
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Hey there, code friends! Welcome back to another episode of the Ollama podcast. I'm your host, and wow, do we have some exciting stuff to dive into today! Grab your favorite beverage because we're talking about something I absolutely love - making tools work better together.
So picture this: you've got Ollama running beautifully on your machine, but then you want to hook it up with Claude, or maybe integrate it with Codex or Droid. Historically, this has been one of those "figure it out yourself" situations, right? Well, not anymore!
Parth Sareen just landed an absolutely massive pull request - and when I say massive, I mean over 4,400 lines of new code across 17 files. This introduces the brand new `ollama config` command, and honestly, this is the kind of developer experience improvement that gets me genuinely excited. Instead of hunting…
What I love about this approach is that it's not just about the functionality - though that's huge - it's about recognizing that developer time is precious. The 30 comments in the review process show this was thoughtfully crafted, and the extensive test coverage tells me this team really cares about reliability.
Now, while that integration story…
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