Continue Newsletter: July 2024 Updates

Continue Updates

🐋 Continue now supports Claude 3.5 Sonnet (our new #1 commercial LLM for coding) and DeepSeek Coder v2 (our new #1 open weights LLM for coding)

🚦It's now possible to easily switch between different models for autocomplete, and you should notice a drastic reduction in noisy completions no matter what model you use

♻️ You can use {{{ codebase }}} and any other context providers in your `.prompt` file templates to easily build and share reusable and dynamic LLM prompts

🔗 Files referenced by Continue now include links (e.g. when using @codebase)

Code x AI Updates

🍎 AI in software engineering at Google: Progress and the path ahead covers what Google has learned from building their custom AI code assistant and their plans to improve it

🪄 AI Assistants are Now Organizational Accelerants observes that AI code assistants are increasingly targeting the entire software development lifecycle within organizations

🚧 Building LLMs for Code Repair explains how Replit fine-tuned DeepSeek Coder v1.5 to provide better fix suggestions for errors identified by the Language Server Protocol

Upcoming Events

1️⃣ Continue weekly office hours will still be on Wednesdays at 10am PT in July

2️⃣ We will be celebrating the first birthday of Ollama and Continue on July 18th in SF

3️⃣ Ty will be in NYC from July 25th to 29th—ping him on Discord if you want to meet up!

Did you know?

Prompt (.prompt) files are an easy way to build and share LLM prompts with others