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Jul 12, 2024

Nate Sesti, Continue.dev co-founder, discusses their open source alternative to GitHub Copilot, allowing code assistance within IDEs like VSCode. They cover running multiple AI models simultaneously, optimal hardware for their tool, and its benefits over existing solutions. Nate shares insights on starting with Continue and its advantages for developers.

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Quick takeaways

Continue.dev provides open-source AI models for local code completion and chatbots in popular IDEs like VS Code and JetBrains.

Users can choose between internet and local AI models with Continue.dev, ensuring data privacy and customization options for enhanced coding productivity.

Deep dives

AI Open Source Tool for Code Assistance

Continue.dev offers an open-source solution for running local AI language models (LLMs) for code completion and chat bots in various IDEs, such as VS Code and JetBrains. Their tool allows users to choose from multiple models, offering an alternative to existing tools like GitHub Copilot. The aim is to provide a highly configurable and locally deployable option for developers.

Intro

3min

Exploring AI Models and Tools for Code Writing

5min

Navigating the Balance Between Tool Usage and Enterprise Policies

2min

VS Code AI Functionalities and Contextual Information

4min

Exploring the Evolving World of Large Language Models and Multi-Modality

4min

Exploring Advanced AI Tools in VS Code with Local Processing

20min

Bret and Nirmal are joined by Continue.dev co-founder, Nate Sesti, to walk through an open source replacement for GitHub Copilot.
Continue lets you use a set of open source and closed source LLMs in JetBrains and VSCode IDEs for adding AI to your coding workflow without leaving the editor.

You've probably heard about GitHub Copilot and other AI code assistants. The Continue team has created a completely open source solution as an alternative, or maybe a superset of these existing tools, because along with it being open source, it's also very configurable and allows you to choose multiple models to help you with code completion and chatbots in VSCode, JetBrains, and more are coming soon.

So this show builds on our recent Ollama show. Continue uses Ollama in the background to run a local LLM for you, if that's what you want to Continue to do for you, rather than internet LLM models.

Check out the video version on YouTube. Includes demos.

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Continue.dev Website

Creators & Guests

Cristi Cotovan - Editor
Beth Fisher - Producer
Bret Fisher - Host
Nirmal Mehta - Host
Nate Sesti - Guest

(00:00) - Introduction
(01:52) - Meet Nate Sesti, CTO of Continue
(02:40) - Birth and Evolution of Continue
(03:56) - Continue's Features and Benefits
(22:24) - Running Multiple Models in Parallel
(26:38) - Best Hardware for Continue
(32:45) - Other Advantages of Continue
(36:08) - Getting Started with Continue

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