🔄 Continue vs 🐙 GitHub Copilot
Continue is open-source and model-flexible; Copilot is the turnkey default inside VS Code.
Continue is a genuinely open-source assistant that installs into VS Code or JetBrains, and it is model-agnostic — you connect Claude, GPT, Gemini, or a local model with your own key, so there is no new subscription and no lock-in. It supports rules files, so you can pin down exactly how it behaves on your project, and it works as both an inline helper and a chat/agent panel. For an operator who wants a free, transparent tool inside an editor they already know, it is an easy first install.
Full profile →GitHub Copilot is the most widely used AI coding assistant, which means the most tutorials, the most community answers, and the fewest surprises when you get stuck. It lives directly inside VS Code and JetBrains, has a genuinely usable free tier, and lets you pick between frontier models (GPT, Claude, Gemini) depending on the task. For an operator who wants a safe, well-supported first agent, it is one of the lowest-friction ways to start building.
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