Continue
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
Why people recommend it
“or https://www.continue.dev/”
“is easy to try out and see if it meets your needs”
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“We copied a lot of code from Continue.dev (best open source autocomplete in our view).”
“Isn't Continue supposed to help you do that, in VSCode?”
Caveats and dissent
“Second headache was a lot of frustration with the Continue plugin in my IDE.”
“continue is eol after being acquired by cursor/spacex”
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“The continuedev/continue repository is no longer actively maintained and is read-only for all users.”
“i tried the continue vscode extension, and it seemed kind of janky.”
Often compared with
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“our checks product is powered by an open-source CLI (we think this is important), which we recommend for jetbrains users”
Threads where it came up
- Show HN: Continue – Source-controlled AI checks, enforceable in CI 2 mentions
- Claude Code: connect to a local model when your quota runs out 2 mentions
- Computer use in Gemini 3.5 Flash 1 mention
- SpaceX to buy Cursor AI coding agent operator Anysphere for $60B 1 mention
- Continue has been acquired by Cursor 1 mention
- GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing 1 mention
Also written as Continue.dev, continue.dev. Data: continue.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 19
“Second headache was a lot of frustration with the Continue plugin in my IDE.”
“continue is eol after being acquired by cursor/spacex”
“The continuedev/continue repository is no longer actively maintained and is read-only for all users.”
“i tried the continue vscode extension, and it seemed kind of janky.”
“Continue in VS Code”
“When I use them with Continue in VSCode and start typing basic C”
“Continue.dev (kind of broken regardless of models)”
“or https://www.continue.dev/”
“Do you support exporting metrics to something standard like CSV?”
“For VS Code code completion in Continue”
“you more than likely will need to understand things like https://continue.dev”
“is easy to try out and see if it meets your needs”
“I use continue.dev in VSCode”
“Continue.dev is trash”
“Continue.dev in VS Code”
“We copied a lot of code from Continue.dev (best open source autocomplete in our view).”
“auto-generates context files for tools like Cursor, Windsurf, Cline, Continue & Aider”
“Isn't Continue supposed to help you do that, in VSCode?”
“Does Qwen3 Coder do a good job invoking its tools as appropriate for you? Under continue.dev at least, I've found I need to remind it constantly.”