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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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how does the oss project benefit the for profit company? are they logging telemetry or other data?

We want Continue to always be free for individuals, and we layer on features for teams and enterprises to make money. There’s much more detail on our pricing page: https://hub.continue.dev/pricing

We have opt-out telemetry that is described clearly here (https://docs.continue.dev/telemetry), and is very easy to toggle off. And we’re actually much more interested in helping folks collect their own data. In the hub, there are “data” blocks that let you send development data to a destination of your choice so you can better understand your own use of AI for development and eventually fine-tune models: https://docs.continue.dev/customize/deep-dives/development-d...

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

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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...

I meant Pylance isn't legally available in Cursor (Vscode license restriction, which is justified). It broke very frequently, so I switched to Based pyright, which works but just not as well.

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

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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…

Are you using aider in your mycoder?

Mycoder is open source and an independent project. The story of building mycoder from scratch is here:

https://benhouston3d.com/blog/building-an-agentic-code-from-...

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

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How does this go along with editors like Windsurf and Cursor?

If you're a user of .cursorrules or .windsurfrules, then there's a lot of great content at https://hub.continue.dev/explore/rules. They don't yet support assistant files directly so unfortunately you'd have to copy-paste, but we designed the standard to be client-agnostic and I think it will be a great way of sharing an ecosystem across clients going forward

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

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It's a bit disingenuous that you claim on your banner that your launch was covered by AP when it was in fact a paid content Press Release that only shared the domain: "PRESS RELEASE: Paid Content from EZ Newswire. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation.", see https://apnews.com/press-release/ez-newswire/artificial-inte...

We didn't claim to be covered by AP, but I see what you mean: the previous text ("Learn more on TechCrunch and The Associated Press") wasn't clear enough. We've updated it to say “Check out our TechCrunch coverage and press release on AP News”. It's a bit clunky but should avoid that misunderstanding. Thanks for pointing this out!

Thanks for clarifying!

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

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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…

What broke on you when using Cody? Sorry to hear about that and want to fix it for you.

Thanks for asking. This may be more information than you were expecting, but here goes!

I tried to use it one day and was confronted by a cryptic auth error. It looked like a raw HTML error page but it was rendering in the side panel as plain text. So I tried logging out an logging back in again. That got me a different cryptic auth error. Then I noticed I had accidentally left my VPN on, so I turned that off, but the extension seemed to have gotten stuck in some state that it couldn't recover from. I'd either get an auth error, or it simply wouldn't ever complete auth. I even reinstalled, but couldn't get it to log me in.

So I contacted support. The experience didn't exactly spark joy. Once I got a response, the support person suggested I send more details, including logs. But they didn't say where I could find those logs. I'm a customer - how would I know where the logs are? Anyway, I uploaded a video of the bug on the web tracker, but later the support person said they never got it. The upload had apparently failed, but I didn't get an error when I uploaded it, so I didn't know that.

After I asked for the location of the logs, they sent me instructions for where to find them. But I was busy and couldn't respond for a few days, so then the system sent me an automatic message saying that since they hadn't heard from me, my issue would be closed. Ugh. I sent another email saying to keep the issue open. Then I sent the logs, and the support person told me to try logging in with a token and gave me instructions. That worked! It took about a week and a half to sort it out, so I asked for a refund for my trouble. I was told that no refund or credit would be given.

This left a sour taste in my mouth. It's not about the money. Credit for lost time using the service would have been around $2. It's more about what it means, that the company values my time and trouble, and this issue cost me a lot of time and trouble.

I hope that I'm not ruining this support person's day. My sense is that these kinds of things are usually due to training and policy, and they were probably just following their training.

It's a shame because Cody definitely has a much better UX than Continue. It does a lot of smart things by default that are really helpful. So I was ready to stick with it, but this experience definitely made me ready to try Continue again.

Hope this helps!

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

#108
post #65

I use the Continue extension in both IntelliJ and VSCode and it's great. Although, I'm just connecting it to my own providers and not using your hub. So I'm more of a free-loader of the extension than a Continue customer. Anyway, thank you!

I wouldn't say that's free-loader behavior :) It's exactly what we want to make possible—if you have strong reason to use your own models (price, convenience, security, remaining local, or other) then Continue is built for that

Yes exactly. And that's precisely why I use Continue. The day you start force your own products/models on us is the day I leave.

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

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post #96

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

Pointing a problem out is one thing but wishing them ill is another. (Unless I misunderstood the comment.)

This looks like a genuinely refreshing and open source path to helping developers control their own ai stack. I don’t see the harm.

If we are to complain about tools that help make tools that help make products, then we should start decrying compilers and interpreters, for they too are tools that help make tools that help build products.

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

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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…

> The recent productivity has been so high, it has the effect of making my previous efforts seem sort of pedestrian

Fantastic!

Agentic task-offloading is already here; it is just unevenly distributed.

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