Continue.dev has been bought by Cursor... And it's hugely frustrating.
Continue.dev was an extension for Visual Studio Code which allowed you to use AI models to, ideally, vibe code (though I used it to learn coding, as AI coding always throws up errors which I can then try to fix).
The big difference between it and other pieces of software (like Windsurf) was it was open source and let you use your own models. After some setup I got performance about as good as using Windsurf, except I was using my own models run on my graphics card meaning the cost was, at most, my electricity bill and some time (rather than paying an external server for a certain amount of tokens).
Maybe there's a better solution these days; I feel like Visual Studio Code isn't that far from having built-in support for your own AI models. It's just frustrating to have something open source get swallowed up like this, with no direct replacement.
It could be I'm just not read up on AI news, and actually there's already a solution out or around the corner. The big problem with AI news is it feels dominated by techbros and hype, rather than grounded articles that allow a user to experiment with AI at home. There are a few sources that have help like this, but they tend to spread out- probably because they're not as profitable to redirecting you to buy tokens from OpenAI, Google, Grok or something.
Anyway, if I find any other software I'll be sure to report on it. Also I'll eventually post my findings on using MCP Servers, as they are a headache in themselves.
