Flow State with VS Code AI
Download MP3Bret 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
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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
- (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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Creators and Guests
Host
Bret Fisher
Cloud native DevOps Dude. Course creator, YouTuber, Podcaster. Docker Captain and CNCF Ambassador. People person who spends too much time in front of a computer.
Producer
Beth Fisher
Producer of the DevOps and Docker Talk and Agentic DevOps podcasts. Assistant producer on Bret Fisher Live show on YouTube. Business and proposal writer by trade.
Guest
Nate Sesti
Coding @continuedev, Publicly Thinking @ https://t.co/E88MzpzLol, (no longer) Studying Physics @ MIT ('23)
