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@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ title = 'Closing the Harness and future of OS LLM CLIs'
summary = 'Goodbye Continue.dev. Whose next?' summary = 'Goodbye Continue.dev. Whose next?'
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One of my favourite VS Code general use plugins for connecting to a variety of backend agent providers has been [Continue.dev's](https://github.com/continuedev/continue). It has releases that go back to [2024](https://github.com/continuedev/continue/releases?page=83) where it has had non-stop continuous development. Over time, I have written guides here and for work on using it with Azure AI foundtry and Ollama. It's just really really good. One of my favourite VS Code general use plugins for connecting to a variety of backend agent providers has been [Continue.dev's](https://github.com/continuedev/continue). It has releases that go back to [2024](https://github.com/continuedev/continue/releases?page=83) where it has had non-stop continuous development. Over time, I have written guides here and for work on using it with Azure AI foundry and Ollama. It's just really really good.
This week, however, seemingly out of the blue, [they published 2.0.0 and marked it the final build (ever)](https://docs.continue.dev/#final-200-release). I still was operating on a 2.1-prerelease in my systems so I was pretty sure this was a change of plans. This week, however, seemingly out of the blue, [they published 2.0.0 and marked it the final build (ever)](https://docs.continue.dev/#final-200-release). I still was operating on a 2.1-prerelease in my systems so I was pretty sure this was a change of plans.
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By luck, almost as a poison pill, the great harness of continue.dev was set with an Apache 2 license - this is permissive license that enables business use. This means anyone can pick it up and run with it. By luck, almost as a poison pill, the great harness of continue.dev was set with an Apache 2 license - this is permissive license that enables business use. This means anyone can pick it up and run with it.
When looking about the interwebs, there was one fork suggested, [PearAI submodule](https://github.com/trypear/pearai-submodule) but there is no simple to use vsx install file and the contributing guide is a lenthy how to build writeup. There is a [PearAI app](https://github.com/trypear/pearai-app) but the last release is almost 14 months old so maybe it's abandoned. When looking about the interwebs, there was one fork suggested, [PearAI submodule](https://github.com/trypear/pearai-submodule) but there is no simple to use vsx install file and the contributing guide is a lengthy how to build writeup. There is a [PearAI app](https://github.com/trypear/pearai-app) but the last release is almost 14 months old so maybe it's abandoned.
Obviously, in my toolbox I keep options, one of which has been [Cline.bot](https://cline.bot/) Obviously, in my toolbox I keep options, one of which has been [Cline.bot](https://cline.bot/)
@ -47,15 +47,15 @@ There are Open-Weight models dropped into [Ollama](https://ollama.com/) but even
I'm not sure where we go from here. I can recall two trends that seem related. I'm not sure where we go from here. I can recall two trends that seem related.
The first was IDEs. I recall getting a less than legit copy of Borland C++ for my Mac laptop in 1997 to help do coding work. At the time, good compilers cost money and there was a trend about getting commercial IDEs. My Windows colleagues were about Visual Studio and later InterDev. My Java colleagues all used IntelliJ and Eclipse. I was doing Fortran at the time so they offered me Vi or Emacs and I did Vi. Seems as time went on, the IDEs went opensource or free. People used Notepad++ or TextEdit or a variety of other tools. For many years in the early 2010s I was quite happy with Atom. And now we see all these forks of VSCode so that vendors can load in their own AI tools - but I think the differrentor _could_ be the tooling. The first was IDEs. I recall getting a less than legit copy of Borland C++ for my Mac laptop in 1997 to help do coding work. At the time, good compilers cost money and there was a trend about getting commercial IDEs. My Windows colleagues were about Visual Studio and later InterDev. My Java colleagues all used IntelliJ and Eclipse. I was doing Fortran at the time so they offered me Vi or Emacs and I did Vi. Seems as time went on, the IDEs went opensource or free. People used Notepad++ or TextEdit or a variety of other tools. For many years in the early 2010s I was quite happy with Atom. And now we see all these forks of VSCode so that vendors can load in their own AI tools - but I think the differentiator _could_ be the tooling.
That is, if Windsurf, Cursor, Verdant, Bob, Antigravity, Copilot (by way of "VS Code") all are about the same now, then I would see some adding good memory stores (like a Valkey cache) or better handling of OKF or Database integrations to tie to LLMs or just search setting the various tools apart. As I start to stew, maybe the times of "really great IDEs" will come back and we start to say "sure, they call can think up answers, but who has the easiest to use orchestraton framework... who can help me test and review my code and make it legible.. who can tie in my data sources the best"... That is, if Windsurf, Cursor, Verdant, Bob, Antigravity, Copilot (by way of "VS Code") all are about the same now, then I would see some adding good memory stores (like a Valkey cache) or better handling of OKF or Database integrations to tie to LLMs or just search setting the various tools apart. As I start to stew, maybe the times of "really great IDEs" will come back and we start to say "sure, they call can think up answers, but who has the easiest to use orchestration framework... who can help me test and review my code and make it legible.. who can tie in my data sources the best"...
The other trend that came to mind was music. We saw this once long ago with the record industry and Napster. At first it was basically free and we all got tunes. Then they tried to close the doors and some vendors (like Sony) had such propietary hard to use formats no one used them (I have a minidisc player. i remember). Then it was commiditized with MP3s hosted everywhere (eg. allofmp3.com), then the big vendors got involved, the government played heavy hand and we were back to a few providers (iTunes), then streaming became so ubiquitous no one cared... and now my kids, who all hate AI, are into records (vinyl) and tapes. The other trend that came to mind was music. We saw this once long ago with the record industry and Napster. At first it was basically free and we all got tunes. Then they tried to close the doors and some vendors (like Sony) had such proprietary hard to use formats no one used them (I have a minidisc player. i remember). Then it was commoditized with MP3s hosted everywhere (eg. allofmp3.com), then the big vendors got involved, the government played heavy hand and we were back to a few providers (iTunes), then streaming became so ubiquitous no one cared... and now my kids, who all hate AI, are into records (vinyl) and tapes.
So if I layer that trend, there is a future where our youth are hunting down O'Reilly books and collecting and trading them like the treasured tombs ([)i think of them as). I actually like this - the grand future is back to stacks of MSDN discs, big books, and local repos of text files. So if I layer that trend, there is a future where our youth are hunting down O'Reilly books and collecting and trading them like the treasured tombs ([)i think of them as). I actually like this - the grand future is back to stacks of MSDN discs, big books, and local repos of text files.
It's probably a long way off. Right now I recommend y'all download the models as they are free. Install and use tools like llama.cpp, ollama and comfy ui. Learn to host local and if worse comes to worse and everything gets aggregiously overpriced or locked down, you have your mini-assistent on a nearby box. It's probably a long way off. Right now I recommend y'all download the models as they are free. Install and use tools like llama.cpp, ollama and comfy ui. Learn to host local and if worse comes to worse and everything gets egregiously overpriced or locked down, you have your mini-assistant on a nearby box.
Oh, and they still sell O'Reilly books, I recently bought some on Perl from Amazon ... Oh, and they still sell O'Reilly books, I recently bought some on Perl from Amazon ...