Continue Newsletter: January 2025 Updates

Continue Updates

🔒 Stacklok introduced CodeGate—local, open source privacy controls that encrypt secrets before they find their way into your prompts and alerts you when dangerous dependencies are suggested—and created a tutorial on how to use it with Continue

✏️ There was a drastic improvement to mid-line autocomplete suggestions thanks to a fix to the algorithm that displays completions to a user

🍊 SambaNova Systems announced support for QwenCoder2.5 32B on the SambaNova Cloud, which can be used in Continue with a free API key

Code x AI Updates

🔮 How I program with LLMs summarizes a years worth of personal experiences using generative models while programming

🫐 My AI junior dev still needs an adult in the room covers a journey from dismissing the utility of AI coding assistance to developing a personal LLM-powered coding assistant over the course of 2024

🐘 The Death of the Stubborn Developer makes the argument that you are getting left behind if you do not adopt chat-based programming as your primary modality

🪴 This thread on X by @sh_reya describes the problems arising from LLM-generated code and the pain points of using LLMs-as-coders

Upcoming Events

1️⃣ Continue office hours will be on Wednesday, January 8th at 10am PT this month

2️⃣ Ty will be going on The Vanishing Gradients podcast on Tuesday, January 14th

Did you know?

After pressing cmd/ctrl+I, you can add all open files as the code to edit