Continue.dev: open source IDE extension to connect any LLM to your editor
In one sentence Continue launches its open source IDE extension that lets you connect any LLM — local with Ollama, cloud with OpenAI or Anthropic — directly in VS Code or JetBrains with codebase context.
The problem with GitHub Copilot, Codeium, and other commercial tools is that you can't choose which model to use. If you want your own local model for privacy reasons, or a fine-tuned model on your company's code, you have no choice.
Continue solves this with an open source approach: it's a VS Code and JetBrains extension that acts as a middle layer between the IDE and any LLM. Want to use Ollama locally? Done. Want Claude from Anthropic? Done. Want your company's self-hosted model? Done.
For companies that can't send code to external APIs, Continue became the obvious solution: maximum flexibility, fully open source, zero vendor lock-in.
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