Copilot isn’t bad. Roo Code is an open source cursor alternative that works with VS Code. I like it more than Cursor. Much heavier than only tab completion though
Does anyone have a recommendation of a similar high quality, super fast tab auto-complete LLM for VSCode without switching over to Cursor? I’m fairly happy with Claude pro + VSCode for my agentic tinkering (mostly just using plan mode), but Supermaven filled a niche of a drop-in high speed autocomplete that was nice.
At Kilo (VScode plugin, BYOK so works with Claude Pro) we just rolled out autocomplete to 10% of our user base on Friday and we're happy with what we're seeing. The autocomplete is based a Mistal model (Codestral) that is fast and accurate https://mistral.ai/news/codestral We copied a lot of code from Continue.dev (best open source autocomplete in our view). We plan to roll it out to 100% of our users no later than Tuesday. The autocomplete is consumption priced (no markup) but the cost per month should be low single digit dollars.
Was inevitable but it is cool to see that the Cursor team are really making good use of the tech. Tab complete + the new Composer model are very good at targeted, narrow tasks.
Super disappointing there effectively doesn’t exist an “open” competitor in this space that’s close to parity with Cursor/supermaven. Although I wouldn’t have guessed the product category would get out-competed by agentic AI agents writing 100% of code so soon.
Any "open" equivalent has the basic problem that it's all subsidized by VCs. The only way you're going to avoid the profit extraction incentive is to run your own cluster of $5000 GPUs in your basement.
All I wanted was fast on-demand code completion. Guess 2025 is a lost year on that front.
Copilot isn’t bad. Roo Code is an open source cursor alternative that works with VS Code. I like it more than Cursor. Much heavier than only tab completion though
Does anyone have a recommendation of a similar high quality, super fast tab auto-complete LLM for VSCode without switching over to Cursor? I’m fairly happy with Claude pro + VSCode for my agentic tinkering (mostly just using plan mode), but Supermaven filled a niche of a drop-in high speed autocomplete that was nice.
At Kilo (VScode plugin, BYOK so works with Claude Pro) we just rolled out autocomplete to 10% of our user base on Friday and we're happy with what we're seeing. The autocomplete is based a Mistal model (Codestral) that is fast and accurate https://mistral.ai/news/codestral We copied a lot of code from Continue.dev (best open source autocomplete in our view). We plan to roll it out to 100% of our users no later than Tuesday. The autocomplete is consumption priced (no markup) but the cost per month should be low single digit dollars.
Roo Code is awesome and free and open source.
Was inevitable but it is cool to see that the Cursor team are really making good use of the tech. Tab complete + the new Composer model are very good at targeted, narrow tasks.
Super disappointing there effectively doesn’t exist an “open” competitor in this space that’s close to parity with Cursor/supermaven. Although I wouldn’t have guessed the product category would get out-competed by agentic AI agents writing 100% of code so soon.
Roo Code is excellent
Any "open" equivalent has the basic problem that it's all subsidized by VCs. The only way you're going to avoid the profit extraction incentive is to run your own cluster of $5000 GPUs in your basement.