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Continue

Open-source AI code assistant for VS Code and JetBrains

Continue is an open-source IDE extension that adds AI chat, autocomplete, and editing to VS Code and JetBrains. Connect any LLM — local or cloud. Customizable with your own prompts and context.

Panel Reviews

The Futurist

The Futurist

Big Picture

Ship

This is the kind of tool that makes you wonder how you worked without it.

The Skeptic

The Skeptic

Reality Check

Ship

Solid execution. Does what it promises and the DX is clean.

The Builder

The Builder

Developer Perspective

Ship

The team ships fast and responds to feedback. Good sign.

Community Sentiment

Overall2,661 mentions
76% positive16% neutral8% negative
Hacker News521 mentions

The ability to plug in your own LLM and keep code local is a game changer for enterprise

Reddit843 mentions

Switched from Copilot to Continue with local Ollama — same quality, zero cost

Twitter/X1050 mentions

Continue.dev just shipped context provider support for Jira and it's incredible

Product Hunt247 mentions

Open source, self-hostable, works with every IDE — this is what AI tooling should look like