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Launch HN: Continue (YC S23) – Create custom AI code assistants

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Re: Launch HN: Continue (YC S23) – Create custom AI code assistants

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Post by sestinj »

ripped_britches wrote: post #79

I would try a flutter assistant on your hub. Can I use hub with cursor instead of your extension? How easy is it to make your own assistant?

It looks like people have created a few already: https://hub.continue.dev/search?q=flutter

I think it would be great to have one on the front page as well if there's something you find works really well. The nice thing about assistants is that a lot of the work is just browsing and clicking to add the blocks you want, and then when you really end up going deeper to customize the rules, this is just writing plain english!

I don't believe Cursor has added support for assistant files (https://docs.continue.dev/reference) yet, but think it would be great if they did! We've designed the format to be totally client agnostic and hopefully to be a simple, portable way to share assistants across any tool

Re: Launch HN: Continue (YC S23) – Create custom AI code assistants

#92

Post by sestinj »

FloorEgg wrote: post #82

Can someone make an assistant for firestore security rules, and another for shadcn with the latest tailwindcss version? Like, yesterday? These are the two cases where Claude 3.7/windsurf shits in my bed. :(

Ooh +1 to both of these. We use shadcn as well :) and have been leveraging these docs: https://hub.continue.dev/vercel/shadcn-ui-docs, but there should totally be more in-depth rules for it and Firestore

Re: Launch HN: Continue (YC S23) – Create custom AI code assistants

#93

Post by sestinj »

dimal wrote: post #89

I've enjoyed using Continue and really appreciated the focus on customizability. But my problem with Continue has been the lack of stability. I'll often bounce from one tool to another, so I might not use it for a couple weeks. Almost every time I come back to it, the extension is broken in some way. I've reinstalled it many many times. I kinda gave up on it and stuck with Cody, even though I like the feature set of…

I'm sorry you ran into problems repeatedly, and couldn't agree more. As much as we've aimed to innovate on customization, it does not have to be an either/or. We recognized this, heard a lot from the community, and the goal of our 1.0 was to focus ourselves very seriously on stability. Going forward we are going to continue to treat Continue as the foundational tool that we hope it can be. This has meant investment in testing, clearer contributing guidelines, and a general mindset shift to understand that AI code assistants have become fundamental to developer workflows and have to be rock solid (when something is doing work on every keystroke, it better not break!)

If you get the chance to try the 1.0, I'd love to hear whether you find it better, or if you think we can do even better—we think it's in a solid place and it'll always be improving from here.

Re: Launch HN: Continue (YC S23) – Create custom AI code assistants

#94

Post by ctxc »

thelastbender12 wrote: post #22

Congrats on the release! I've been using Cursor but somewhat annoyed with the regular IDE affordances not working quite right (absence of pylance), and would love to go back to VSCode. I'd love it if you lean into pooled model usage, rather than it being an addon. IMO it is the biggest win for Cursor usage - a reasonable num of LLM calls per month, so I never have to do token math or fiddle with api keys. Of course,…

Quick question, what do you mean by new pylance in cursor?

It's basically VSCode - I just ported all extensions in Cursor settings, it installed existing VSCode extensions including Pylance and it just works...

Re: Launch HN: Continue (YC S23) – Create custom AI code assistants

#95

Post by dimal »

sestinj wrote: post #93
dimal wrote: post #89

I've enjoyed using Continue and really appreciated the focus on customizability. But my problem with Continue has been the lack of stability. I'll often bounce from one tool to another, so I might not use it for a couple weeks. Almost every time I come back to it, the extension is broken in some way. I've reinstalled it many many times. I kinda gave up on it and stuck with Cody, even though I like the feature set of…

I'm sorry you ran into problems repeatedly, and couldn't agree more. As much as we've aimed to innovate on customization, it does not have to be an either/or. We recognized this, heard a lot from the community, and the goal of our 1.0 was to focus ourselves very seriously on stability. Going forward we are going to continue to treat Continue as the foundational tool that we hope it can be. This has meant investment i…

That’s great to hear! I’ll give it another shot!

Re: Launch HN: Continue (YC S23) – Create custom AI code assistants

#96

Post by TZubiri »

You can build a useful ai product to give the power of ai to your users

You can build with ai to give the power to you and produce a regular (at best) product.

You can build a custom ai code assistant maker so that coders can use ai to produce ai products.

It's too much incest, I hate it, hope you guys eat your own tail

Re: Launch HN: Continue (YC S23) – Create custom AI code assistants

#97

Post by CMCDragonkai »

bhouston wrote: post #24
r_singh wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> As someone who has done a lot of work with agentic coding Can you please share what are your favourite tools and for what exactly? Would be helpful I've been using Cline a lot with the PLAN + ACT modes and Cursor for the Inline Edits but I've noticed that for anything much larger than Claude 3.7's context window things get less reliable and it's not worth it anymore. Have you found a way to share knowledge packs? A…

> Can you please share what are your favourite tools and for what exactly? Would be helpful I wrote my own open source one here: https://github.com/drivecore/mycoder . Covered on hacker news here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43177117 I've also studied coding with it and wrote a lot about my findings here: - https://benhouston3d.com/blog/lean-into-agentic-coding-mista... - https://benhouston3d.com/blog/buildi…

Are you using aider in your mycoder?

Re: Launch HN: Continue (YC S23) – Create custom AI code assistants

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Post by yoz »

bhouston wrote: post #24
r_singh wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> As someone who has done a lot of work with agentic coding Can you please share what are your favourite tools and for what exactly? Would be helpful I've been using Cline a lot with the PLAN + ACT modes and Cursor for the Inline Edits but I've noticed that for anything much larger than Claude 3.7's context window things get less reliable and it's not worth it anymore. Have you found a way to share knowledge packs? A…

> Can you please share what are your favourite tools and for what exactly? Would be helpful I wrote my own open source one here: https://github.com/drivecore/mycoder . Covered on hacker news here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43177117 I've also studied coding with it and wrote a lot about my findings here: - https://benhouston3d.com/blog/lean-into-agentic-coding-mista... - https://benhouston3d.com/blog/buildi…

Thanks so much for sharing your work. Your blog posts are _far_ more interesting and helpful than most of what I'm seeing about agentic coding.

I'm particularly fascinated by those last two links, along with your latest post about READMEs. It makes me wonder about a visual specification editor that provides GitHub-like task chronology around the spec, with the code as a secondary artefact (in contrast to GitHub, where code is primary).

Re: Launch HN: Continue (YC S23) – Create custom AI code assistants

#100

Post by bhouston »

yoz wrote: post #98
bhouston wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Can you please share what are your favourite tools and for what exactly? Would be helpful I wrote my own open source one here: https://github.com/drivecore/mycoder . Covered on hacker news here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43177117 I've also studied coding with it and wrote a lot about my findings here: - https://benhouston3d.com/blog/lean-into-agentic-coding-mista... - https://benhouston3d.com/blog/buildi…

Thanks so much for sharing your work. Your blog posts are _far_ more interesting and helpful than most of what I'm seeing about agentic coding. I'm particularly fascinated by those last two links, along with your latest post about READMEs. It makes me wonder about a visual specification editor that provides GitHub-like task chronology around the spec, with the code as a secondary artefact (in contrast to GitHub, wher…

Thanks for the positive feedback! If you can share them please do!

BTW I'm working on ideas to make code a secondary artifact right now, sort of v2 of mycoder.

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