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319: Rules and guardrails for AI coding assistants (with Continue's Brian Douglas) - What the Dev? In this episode, Dave interviews Brian Douglas, head of developer experience at Continue, about the importance of rules for AI tools.They discuss: How to implement rules for AI assistantsUsing ru...

When working with AI agents to write code, the difference between good and great results often comes down to the quality of your rules. Listen to @bizza.pizza talk about the importance of it with Continue.

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From the AIMemory community on Reddit: Cognee MCP is my new AI Memory for making rules Explore this post and more from the AIMemory community

Your AI assistant forgets everything after each conversation. But what if it didn't? 🧠

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I once turned a day-long build into 10 minutes by learning cross-compilation. Same energy is happening with AI tools.

‪@chiphuyen.bsky.social‬ tracked AI interruptions (24.5%), found the patterns, fixed her codebase structure.

Intervention rates are the new build times 📊

Continue Newsletter - July 2025 Introducing Plan Mode, a new agent mode that provides safer AI assistance by restricting tool access to read-only operations. Like Agent mode, it enables intelligent conversation with tool calling cap...

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Introducing Plan Mode! Read more about it in the July Continue Newsletter

I loved Docusaurus but it was time to try Mintlify

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Recurse ML Rules That Enable async Context Engineering with Kids Around Last weekend, I was practicing what Ty Dunn shared on "context engineering" with my project contributor.info while the kids were home. Instead of traditional vibe coding, I was systematically providin...

I wrote another post on Context Engineering with @continue.dev
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Every dimension of designing, delivering, and operating software is changing dramatically.

Software Maximalism is the way

There is so much room for context engineering improvements at large organizations

Code Offline with Context Engineering I ride BART every day, and I've turned those underground stretches into productive coding time using Continue's agent mode with Ollama. No internet required. The reality of offline development We'v...

It takes 52 minutes of uninterrupted time to reach flow state. What if that flow state is on your commute? blog.continue.dev/go-offline-w...

Building a Semantic Code History Search with LanceDB Ever wished you could ask "who wrote all the authentication logic?" instead of manually running git blame on every auth-related file? What if your AI coding assistant could understand not just who cha...

Ever wished you could ask "who wrote all the authentication logic?" instead of manually running git blame on every auth-related file?

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YouTube video by bdougie I wrote AI code on offline on a BART train

I wrote AI code offline on a BART train
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Why Open Source AI Coding Tools Are the Future – Insights from Continue CEO Chad Metcalf - Techstrong TV Continue CEO Chad Metcalf explains why an open source-based approach to AI coding tools will soon gain traction with application development teams.

@chadmetcalf.com was recently a guest on Mike Vizard’s Techstrong show on DevOps sharing his insights and thoughts on AI Coding tools, open-source AI and more

Check out his full interview here: techstrong.tv/videos/inter...

Leverage rules as a context provider now in Continue 📜

The Anatomy of Rules: Writing Effective Boundaries for AI Agents in Ruby When working with AI agents to write code, the difference between good and great results often comes down to the quality of your rules. In my recent video, I demonstrated how rules serve as guardrails...

First post on the @continue.dev blog today. The Anatomy of Rules.

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Vibe Code to Explore What Can Be Automated But Don't Become a Human Clipboard AI amplifies intent AI is an intention amplifier. If your intention is to be more productive, AI will amplify your productivity. If your intention is to learn, AI will amplify your learning. If you i...

"You can both have a great time watching an idea come to life despite barely touching the keyboard and use that experience to sharpen your intuition for what AI can reliably automate in your development process"

- @ty.energy in blog.continue.dev/vibe-code-to...

YouTube video by bdougie AI vibe coding is just an intention amplifier

I think there is a way we can all be happy with AI.
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Am I Nuts or Just Old? I generally pass by spicy takes on the internet. Occasionally something provocative starts my brain going. I regret nothing yet! fly.io/blog/youre-a... [image or embed] — Thomas Ptacek (@sockpupp...

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"They don't want the thing they love, that they were present as kids at the beginning of, to be automated, replaced by human shepherding of natural language and remote agent workflows. I believe folks still yearn to type curly braces"

- @chadmetcalf.com from "Am I Nuts or Just Old?"

Looking for an open source alternative to VSCode copilot or JetBrain's assistant?

In the current wave of AI assistant-focused IDEs, it's easy to forget that @continue.dev for #vscode and #intellij was there first.

With new ideas & features to use local and remote models, they're working hard to compete & I got a hands-on demo.

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The programming languages facing an AI-driven existential crisis AI coding assistants are stronger at coding in certain popular programming languages. Is a great consolidation coming?

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“Developers will be the ones who drive how many languages we have. Their actions and their stewardship of their niche programming languages will determine whether we have more or less”

- @ty.energy in 'The programming languages facing an AI-driven existential crisis' by @karimcmack.bsky.social

AI Native Dev - SF Meetup · Luma AI is changing software development. We're really excited and intrigued by the future of it: Maybe you are building software with AI? Or building tools that…

I start a new role with @continue.dev next week.

What a better way to celebrate than joining me at GitHub for the next AI Native Meetup? lu.ma/87kr0w9r

Building an AI coding assistant on AWS: A guide for federal agencies | Amazon Web Services Learn how to build an AI coding assistant that meets stringent security requirements for federal customers. This technical guide demonstrates how to combine AWS AI services, open source development to...

Check out "Building an AI coding assistant on AWS: A guide for federal agencies" on the AWS Public Sector Blog 🍊

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Morph: Faster Apply + Better Retrieval Today we have a guest post from Tejas at Morph. Stop Fighting with AI Code Edits You ask Claude to refactor your authentication logic. It responds with 80 lines of beautiful code. Now what? Copy ...

You ask Claude to refactor your authentication logic. It responds with 80 lines of beautiful code.

Now what?

Copy the whole thing? Manually find where each piece goes? Watch your indentation break?

Answer: Morph Apply 📝

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AI Native Dev - SF Meetup · Luma AI is changing software development. We're really excited and intrigued by the future of it: Maybe you are building software with AI? Or building tools that…

I'm so happy that SF meetups are back. AI is changing how we code daily. Let's share what's actually working. GitHub SF office. No pitches, just day to day dev experiences. Great warm-up for AI Engineer World's Fair 🚀 lu.ma/87kr0w9r

anthropic/claude-4-sonnet Anthropic's latest high-performance model

Claude 4 is ready to go in Continue! ✅

And...It's good. Very good.

Just add `anthropic/claude-4-sonnet` or `anthropic/claude-4-opus` to your config.yaml, or add them from the hub:

Quickstart: Devstral + Continue Today, Mistral released Devstral, an Apache-2.0, 24B-parameter model trained for tool calling in real-world software development environments. It reached #1 on SWE-bench for open-source models, but m...

Quickstart for Devstral + Continue + Ollama: blog.continue.dev/devstral/

💻 Agent mode just went local! Today, Mistral AI released Devstral, an Apache-2.0, 24B-parameter model trained for tool calling in real-world software development environments

To try it out, just add `ollama/devstral` in Continue. See below for a quickstart with Ollama 👇

I'm excited to join @continue.dev as CEO. After working with
@ty.energy and @natesesti.bsky.social first as a user, then advisor, I'm thrilled to have the opportunity to help build what I believe in: open developer tools that amplify developers' work without trying to replace them.