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Michael Seibel

Continue (IDE extension) - The open-source coding autopilot

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Continue is the open-source autopilot for software development built to be deeply customizable and continuously learn from development data. It's a VS Code extension that brings the power of ChatGPT to your IDE

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Nate Sesti
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Hello Product Hunt 👋 and thanks for the hunt Michael! I’m Nate, co-founder of Continue, along with @tylerjdunn. Like many software developers, we spent our free time working together on side projects, and in this process became power-users of Copilot and ChatGPT. We felt that the experience of programming was changing markedly, but still constantly saw that language models were capable of more…if only there were a good way to tinker and try our hand at the improvements we had in mind. This was the motivation behind Continue: LLM dev tools should adapt to developer needs, providing customization wherever desired, and a smooth out-of-the-box experience everywhere else. We’re thrilled to share the solution we’ve crafted. Here’s what you can do with Continue today: 💻 Save trips to-and-from the browser. Spare yourself the trouble of copy/pasting code from ChatGPT, and simply ask questions from within your IDE. 🔎 Powerfully manage context. Highlight multiple sections of code or type ‘@’ to reference GitHub Issues, documentation, Slack conversations, and more. ✅ Safely generate edits. Highlight code, request a change, then press enter to see the changes streamed into a side-by-side diff, where you can confidently review before changing the original file. 🦙 Use any LLM. This includes GPT-4, Llama-2, Claude, the latest open-source LLMs, or a custom model. 🛠️ Save and reuse prompts. With “slash commands”, you can create templated prompts that help you and your teammates save time on repetitive tasks. ⌨️ Navigate with keyboard shortcuts. Like any good autopilot, Continue lets you stay hands-off (the mouse). Toggle Continue, make edits, add context, and ask questions all with ergonomic keybindings. We can’t wait to see what side (or main) projects you all build with Continue and, more so, we can’t wait to learn what features you’d like to see next! It is our mission to give developers the keys to the creation of the most powerful tools of this generation, and this mission wouldn’t be complete without your feedback. Happy hunting, Nate
Ludo
Congratulation for you launch ! It seems really powerful, different than copilot. I might switch when I have the time. Do you know if Copilot and Continue extensions can run together? Also do you have some tutorial to configure a custom LLM?
Nate Sesti
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@dib258 Appreciate it! Continue and Copilot tab-autocompletions are very complimentary, and I actually use them both, just for different purposes. We have a ton of options for custom LLMs—you can read about them here: https://continue.dev/docs/custom.... And if a model you'd like isn't supported, we'd love to know, and will add support ASAP.
Ludo
@nate_sesti Great that they both work alongside each others ! Thank you for the tutorial about custom LLMs. Again great work and thanks ;)
@nate_sesti and @tylerjdunn, congratulations on building such an innovative tool like Continue. Any plans for adding support for unit testing frameworks in the future?
Nate Sesti
Maker
@ricardo_luz Appreciate it! Since Continue works in VS Code you automatically get the same unit testing support, but we’re also planning on giving the LLM access to this so that it can check its work and write even better code.
Max Rumpf
Awesome work! Great launch! Lets get this to #1
Nate Sesti
Maker
@max_rumpf Thanks Max, we're on our way there! : ) 🚀
Oliver Colebourne
Congrats guys :)
Nate Sesti
Maker
@ocolebourne Thanks Oliver : ))
Cyril Gupta
This looks good... Good luck mate!
Nate Sesti
Maker
@cyriljeet Thanks Cyril! Would love to hear your feedback!
Jeff
Nice initiative! Wish you all the best with it !
Nate Sesti
Maker
@jeff_lr Thank you Jeff!
Cameron Adams
Congrats your launch!!!
Nate Sesti
Maker
@cameron_adams3 Thanks Cameron, give it a try and let us know what you think!
Lotte Seifert
Congrats team: smart product - even smarter team! 🤯
Nate Sesti
Maker
@lotteellen Thanks for the kind words Lotte : )
Vikram Sreedhar
Awesome job on this launch! Really excited to try this out as I’m always switching between applications while coding as well. Have you noticed any trends on how it performs across various languages like python vs JS vs Java as an example?
Nate Sesti
Maker
@vikram_sreedhar Thank you Vikram! The larger portion of code on the internet is Python or Javascript, so almost all existing models perform better in these languages, but the gap is not too large. Especially GPT-4, which is the default model for Continue, has solid knowledge of almost every language I've tried. Excited to hear how it works for you!
Vikram Sreedhar
@nate_sesti It's been working really well so far! Excited to keep using it :) Works really well for commenting and docstrings haha We just launched on product hunt today and would really appreciate it if you checked us out!
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