VSCode ClaudeDev Continue : STOP PAYING for CURSOR with this OPENSOURCE & LOCAL Alternative

[Music] hi welcome to another video so everywhere I go I just see cursor I don't know what's happening but at least on Twitter and YouTube it seems like everyone is using cursor every second tweet on Twitter is about cursor and every second video on YouTube is about cursor I'm just fed up with it now I mean when something like ader or Dev comes out people don't talk about it because half of the people talking about cursor don't know how to navigate through GitHub and use something like Claud Dev or ader but when a company spoon

feeds them the same thing for $20 they start going insane over it secondly cursor is a fork of VSS code which is one of the best open-source editors and many people contribute to it to make it what it is then cursor comes along takes that project attaches a price tag to it with some AI features and start selling it which is not very cool in my opinion the project should at least be original but anyway today I'll be telling you how easy it is to set up something even better than cursor in your vs code

you can be in control of your own data use local models and have a bunch of customizations that you can do plus you won't need to turn on a privacy mode to make sure that companies don't keep your data to train their AI models you can also use Zed which I have plenty of videos on it's a really good editor as well and it's open source it has recently added AI features which is kind of cool but it can't do multifile editing yet which is a bit of a hassle so since we want that feature

as well I'll be using basic vs code and some open-source extensions to create a cursor clone so the editor is going to be VSS code apart from that we'll need some extensions to make vs code like cursor so for code autoc completion and simple code related chat I'll be using continue Dev because it's one of the best co-pilot Alternatives with good Auto completion and it's open source as well so that's what I'll be using for autoc completion and code related chat now there's one thing that continue can't do and that's multifile editing by multifile editing

I mean that I can just give it a prompt and it can go through all the files create files and just complete the application or prompt I want without the barrier of which file I have currently open and stuff like that so for that I'll be using Claud Dev Claud Dev is a very simple vs code extension that allows you to connect it to Claude or any model via open router and you can use it to generate some great applications I have a separate video on it Claud Dev currently doesn't work with AMA so you

can also Swap this with ader if you want AER is not a VSS code extension but you can easily use it with the terminal inside your vs code so that's also cool anyway that's what we'll be using so let's get started first of all just open up VSS code now let's get continue Dev installed to do that just go to the extensions Tab and search for continue Dev now click here and get the extension installed once you have installed it you'll see it in your sidebar just click it and you'll see this interface now just

click the model option here and click the add option now select the provider you want to use you can also use AMA let me choose anthropic here if I selected here you'll need to enter your API key and select the model once you've done that you'll be sent back to the chat screen and here you can now chat put in your code files and talk about it which is really cool you can also use it to generate code right inside the chat interface and put it in the file with the insert at cursor option or

you can also generate code right inside the file with the command plus I shortcut which is also really good now we also need autoc complete so for autocomplete I'd recommend using a local model via AMA I'll be using quen 2 1.5b via AMA because that works the best for me to do that just go to AMA site click on the download button choose your operating system and get it installed once done go to the models page and choose the model you want to use for auto completion in my case it's the quen model so let's

just click it and copy the installation command here now paste it in your terminal and it will start getting installed once done just send a message and see if it's working or not once done just open continue Dev click the settings button and over here just scroll down in the tab autocomplete option change the model name to the model you want to use once done save it now autocomplete should start working which is also really cool so that's how you can use it and do everything with it but it doesn't support multifile editing so let's

install Claud Dev to do that just go to the extensions Tab and search for Claud Dev and get it installed once installed you'll see Claud Dev on your sidebar just click it and you'll see this interface over here go to the settings set up your API key and you can also use open router if you want to use something other than anthropics model so just get that set up and once done save it now you can just type in whatever you want to create or change in your code and it will do everything autonomously based

on your prompt let's ask it to make a simple mind sweeper game using HTML CSS and JS let's send it here and as you can see it's doing that now let's wait a bit [Music] so when it does anything it will ask you to approve it so just approve the stuff and once you do that it will ask you to run a command to start the application it just made you can also look at the code it has generated here and everything will be open in vs code as well so it's pretty good let's open

it here and as you can see it looks pretty good and works well too so I think it's really good now I think you literally have everything that cursor has and all for free the claw Dev works well you can create stuff edit stuff and do anything you want you can also use continue for simple co-pilot tasks and stuff like that plus vs code is much more customizable and easier to use also many people would say that oh it would cost a lot more than cursor and stuff like that well for those people I want

to explain something Claud Dev here supports prompt caching which makes using CLA 3.5 Sonet insanely cheaper for the tasks you want to do here because prompt caching can easily cash your code and use that efficiently for example this mind sweeper game I made just now only cost about 7 cents this generation was about 200 lines so I don't think it would cost you anything more than $20 if you use it exclusively with Claude by the way cursor doesn't even allow you to use clae for more than 500 requests in a month after that limit it

becomes very slow to use which is basically a rate limit secondly you can always customize the model you use for example even cursor gives you a small and large model where you have a quota for each model to use so in the small model you can use something like GPT 40 mini or Gemini flag which is insanely cheaper and also gives you some rate limited usage for free which is really good so I don't think in any way cursor is cheaper like a bunch of people say I mean just calculate it yourself and use it

before making judgments like that I think this configuration can be even cheaper than cursor and if you are not a regular programmer then it's also really good because you won't have to pay $20 every month you can just pay for it when you use it with API based pricing and you can also scale with it without always upgrading your plan from $20 to $40 if you don't want limits at that time anyway I think this is what you should use it works really well you can make this insanely cheaper and even free by using something

like Gemini Flash in continue Dev and in Claud Dev you can use something cheaper via open router which is also really cool overall it's pretty cool anyway let me know your thoughts in the comments if you liked this video consider donating to my Channel Through the super thanks option below or you can also consider becoming a member by clicking the join button also give this video a thumbs up and subscribe to my channel I'll see you in the next video till then bye [Music]