Testing. A reasonable IDE assistant when teams want provider flexibility; not a replacement for repo-scale coding agents.
IDE assistance across mixed providers and a local model backend on a TypeScript and Python codebase.
VS Code, mixed providers behind an internal gateway, local model via Ollama for offline trials.
- Provider-agnostic configuration without committing to one vendor
- Workable with local models for sensitive contexts
- Sensible defaults for inline edits and chat-side review
- Repo-scale awareness is thinner than dedicated coding agents
- Configuration surface is broad and benefits from team conventions
- Quality varies noticeably with provider and model choice
- Inconsistent experience across engineers without shared configuration
- Treating IDE suggestions as reviewed code without explicit checks
We use Continue where teams want IDE assistance without vendor lock-in. A shared configuration repo and a single internal model gateway keep behaviour consistent.