# Mr Pine Cone stuck on loading

**URL:** <https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/mr-pine-cone-stuck-on-loading/10815>\
**Category:** Pinegrow AI Assistant\
**Created:** [June 12, 2025, 10:50pm UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/mr-pine-cone-stuck-on-loading/10815 "2025-06-12T22:50:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![reflex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f05b48/32.png) [@reflex](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/reflex)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2025, 10:50pm UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/mr-pine-cone-stuck-on-loading/10815/1 "2025-06-12T22:50:05Z")

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I’ve decided to experiment with using the AI assistant in Pinegrow on Mac with a local model. After a bit of experimentation, I’ve managed to instal [Ollama](https://ollama.com) (although intending on switching to [Swama](https://github.com/Trans-N-ai/swama/releases/tag/v1.2.0)).

So, yesterday, I got Ollama installed and downloaded 2 models (Gemma3 & Devstral). I was impressed with the command line interactions. I pointed Xcode and Pinegrow to them, and everything worked as I’d hoped.

Then this morning, I open Pinegrow and all it says under the AI Assistant tab is…  
`Loading AI assistant from the server. Please wait…`

This happens in every existing project. It happens in new projects. I can’t change the settings in the tab as the buttons haven’t appeared yet.

I’ve tried removing the Pinegrow folder in ~/Library/Application Support. It does reset Pinegrow back to first run, but it wants the activation code again. When I enter that, it encounters an error, so that’s an obstacle.

Any suggestions how I can get Mr Pine Cone talking to me again?

Almost forgot to mention: The command line and Xcode interface to Ollama is still functioning, so unlikely to be an issue with the models.

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