Been playing around a bit with Continue.dev and Ollama.ai in VSCode (which all runs locally). I have to say, Continue.dev is not a bad tool in terms of “utility” and the overall UX is kind of nice. However; I dunno whether I’m just using inferior models like codellama or codellama (See Models), or whether I’m expecting far too much out of these “glorified” token prediction machines, but all this seems to be good for is banging out repetitive keystrokes.

The darn thing is just so well umm, fucking stupid and just umm clueless?! 🤦‍♂️ I’m not really sure what to think of any of this anymore… It’s been so heavily hyped up over the past couple of years, but why? LIke you can’t really get these models to do much for you, even its “summarize this …” is kind of garbage really 😅

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