Hmm, Ive had a different experience! I struggled with lag until I tried Cursor. It's $0 for the basic tier and feels amazing. Lesson learned: specialized editors beat extensions every time!!

ok so i feel u on the latency struggle... i actually spent way too much time tweaking this. basically if youre looking to save cash while getting top-tier performance, i would suggest sticking with VS Code and the Continue extension. honestly, it is the best budget move cuz you only pay for what you use via the DeepSeek API which is like $0.14 per 1M tokens for cache hits. pretty insane right?? heres what i recommend for the setup:

• use DeepSeek-V3 for fast inline completions
• use DeepSeek-R1 for the heavy reasoning in the chat sidebar
• make sure to enable the local codebase indexing in the config just be careful with the context window... if you feed it too much at once the latency might want to crawl. but yeah, its way cheaper than a GitHub Copilot Individual sub. gl!

> Which code editor or specific extension combo do you think provides the most seamless and responsive experience when using DeepSeek? Whatever you do, watch out for those extensions that try to index your entire drive!! I had a total nightmare last week where my whole system froze because I didnt exclude my build folders. Talk about a reliability killer! Its super important to double-check those settings because if the indexer goes rogue, it doesnt matter how fast the DeepSeek API is, your IDE is gonna crawl. Funny enough, the system lag actually forced me to take a break and finally fix that leaky faucet in my kitchen. It has been dripping for months and it was driving me insane but now its silent and it feels fantastic! I shouldve done that ages ago tbh. But yeah, just keep an eye on your CPU usage when youre setting up the local context stuff.

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100% agree