Continue Newsletter: September 2023 Updates
What's new?
🦙 Code Llama from Meta AI dropped on August 24th! Many of you began using it through Continue via Ollama, Replicate, and Together, and posts about us ended up on the front page of Hacker News that day as well as the next week.
✏️ There are many new opportunities for customizing Continue, including custom chat templates, the ability to use separate models for edit/chat, a handful of new model providers, and GUI that allows you to quickly swap models, set the system message, or change the temperature
🔁 Tommy Ubongabasi, a full-stack developer from Uyo, Nigeria and Continue power user, wrote about how he uses Continue to accelerate his workflows.
📜 There are lots of new features and improvements to the Continue GUI, allowing you to browse session history (i.e. click the file icon at the bottom to browse and resume past Continue sessions), save groups of context for later with bookmarks, easily toggle between models with the new dropdown, edit past messages, and navigate entirely with keyboard shortcuts (e.g. option+cmd+m to toggle Continue, cmd+shift+m to edit, etc).
🧑💻 @bra1nDump delivered huge improvements to the contributor experience by shipping a two-click setup after cloning the repository, the ability to debug from a single window, and an initial foundation for unit testing.
🖥 There are four new context providers: ‘@url’ (reference documentation pages), ‘@diff’ (lets you show the LLM all the changes you’ve made), ‘@search’ (brings the exact same search engine used by VS Code to Continue), and ‘@terminal’ (reference tracebacks or other output in your prompt). All context providers also now work on Windows. Additionally, @bra1nDump improved the relevancy in the '@' dropdown as well as allowing bookmarked URLs for the URLContextProvider.
📦 We launched on Product Hunt at the beginning of the month and finished the day at #9. Thanks to all of you who upvoted our launch post and made this happen!
💪 And last but certainly not least, thank you to everyone else who contributed this month: @elabbarw, @eltociear, @T3tr0, @mshameti, @CambridgeComputing, and @jmorganca!
What's upcoming?
1️⃣ Weekly updates. If the monthly summary above is not enough, join the Discord to see everything that's new each week.
2️⃣ Weekly office hours. We hang out and chat with the community each week on our Discord. Join if you want to ask questions or want to discuss something with us.
3️⃣ First Continue meetup in SF. Later this month, we will be meeting in person in San Francisco with the community. We will post in the Discord with more details soon!
Did you know?
If you run into an error or exception in your terminal, you can pass it to Continue with a keyboard shortcut: cmd+shift+r (MacOS) / ctrl+shift+r (Windows) 🪲
