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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 jareds »

What is the accessibility status of the Continue platform? I am a totally blind developer and have found Cursor to be an absolute mess when it comes to accessibility. There are enough tools available that I'd like to know about there accessibility ahead of time if possible instead of spending a bunch of time trying all of them out only to find they are not accessible.

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

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Post by sestinj »

betimsl wrote: post #38
talos_ wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I guess you would be paying for pushing all of these tokens to the LLM. Also, too much irrelevant context can "confuse" the model about the task at hand

Check out NVIDIAs latest releases. Paying for tokens is going to be a history in about 6 months. You run the model on your laptop. Maybe you're right about the confusion...but given the velocity, that's going to be fixed also. All the knowledge about the field of programming is digitized, one could argue that having a model that digested all that information in a right way, is better than separate. Just a thought. I…

Absolutely +1 to the progress of local models! We hope Continue is and continues to be a great place to use them. Tons of blocks in the Ollama page for example that can be used: https://hub.continue.dev/ollama

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

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Post by sestinj »

betimsl wrote: post #25

Why separate? It's not like there's limited capacity...you can have an assistant knowing all the languages at once.

You're 100% correct, most models these days know most programming languages and will quickly learn the syntax of more niche languages.

For users that end up benefitting from rules, it's typically because of encoding "personal knowledge" or "preferences". When building small side projects from scratch, this typically matters much less: you probably want it to "just work" using the canonical tech stack. Pretty quickly though projects end up with a lot of implicit knowledge and idiosyncratic practices that are great candidates for custom rules!

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

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Post by sestinj »

jareds wrote: post #41

What is the accessibility status of the Continue platform? I am a totally blind developer and have found Cursor to be an absolute mess when it comes to accessibility. There are enough tools available that I'd like to know about there accessibility ahead of time if possible instead of spending a bunch of time trying all of them out only to find they are not accessible.

We have support for text-to-speech in the chat window and have also worked with developers who code entirely through voice and have been quite successful with Continue.

I don't claim that we're perfect and would love to hear how we can improve if you have the chance to give it a try

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

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Post by sestinj »

RVRC wrote: post #46

TLDR: Is there a way to make money from creating these specialized agents?

Nothing built-in yet, but if you have a service that lets users pay for API keys then you can achieve this in effect. There are already some good examples:

- Models like Relace's Instant Apply (https://hub.continue.dev/relace/instant-apply)

- Codebase context services like Greptile (https://hub.continue.dev/continuedev/greptile-context)

- MCP servers for services like Exa (https://hub.continue.dev/exa/exa-mcp)

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

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Post by thelastbender12 »

sestinj wrote: post #31
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,…

Excited to hear how it goes for you! Our Models Add-On is intended to give the same flat monthly fee as you’re accustomed to with other products. What did you mean by leaning into pooled, just making it more front-and-center?

Yep, exactly that. IMO agent workflows, MCP and tool usage bits are all promising, but the more common usage of LLMs in coding is still chat. AI extensions in editors just make it simple to supply context, and apply diffs.

An addon makes it seem like an afterthought, which I'm certain you are not going for! But still making is as seamless as possible would be great. For ex, response time for Claude in Cursor is much better than even the Claude web app for me.

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