Is Continue an open source alternative to Codex, Claude Code, and CoPilot?

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Continue as an open-source extension for #VSCode and ⁨@JetBrainsTV IDEs that lets you use numerous remote, local, closed, and open-source models to help you code with AI assistance.

I spoke with Nate Sesti about the project and the company's origins, how it works, and how they intend to remain competitive with new default assistants in editors and IDEs, and a new wave of AI-first editors.

00:00 Intro
01:29 What is Continue?
06:23 Continue demo
16:56 The Continue team and community
20:00 Competing with Microsoft and JetBrains
24:18 Competing with new IDE arrivals
32:12 Outro

#ai #aidevelopment #assistant #vscode #development #windsurf #cursor

Published: 16 June 2025