Ask HN: GitHub Copilot Alternatives • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: GitHub Copilot Alternatives

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Post by brendanashworth » Thu, Aug 29, 2024, 4:26 PM UTC

Cursor [1] has excellent codebase RAG, and great recall of third party documentation.

Use "instruction @web @Flask" to search the internet and Flask docs before answering, for example.

[1] https://www.cursor.com/

Re: Ask HN: GitHub Copilot Alternatives

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Post by aiagents_dir » Thu, Aug 29, 2024, 5:11 PM UTC

i created directory for such ai agents and i have a category for coding: - CursorAI - Continue

there are many others pen source and close source https://aiagentsdirectory.com/category/coding

Re: Ask HN: GitHub Copilot Alternatives

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Post by FlyingAvatar » Thu, Aug 29, 2024, 6:05 PM UTC

I have been using Zed for the last several months, and their new Zed AI addition is quite good, which I think is only available with their Preview (i.e. beta channel) release this far. It also comes with free in-app access to Claude 3.5 Sonnet (at least for now).

Re: Ask HN: GitHub Copilot Alternatives

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Post by kenmacd » Thu, Aug 29, 2024, 6:06 PM UTC

If you're just looking for something that's similar in the auto-complete category, I'd suggest adding the Continue plugin/extension (https://docs.continue.dev/quickstart#jetbrains) and pointing it at Claude 3.5.

If you haven't tried it yet I'd also suggest trying https://aider.chat/. It's outside of the IDE but I find it's the right level of 'agent' for where we currently are with models. Even if you use it for nothing else it's nice to be able to run the `/test` command and have it use the test output to fix errors.

Re: Ask HN: GitHub Copilot Alternatives

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Post by fullstackwife » Thu, Aug 29, 2024, 6:20 PM UTC

I'm working on a CLI tool which helps to generate and modify a codebase: https://github.com/gtanczyk/genaicode/

It is still a WIP, and pending a major overhaul (both implementation and the UX), but it works already, and helps me realise my ideas (games):

- https://www.gamedev.pl/games/monster-steps/ - source: https://github.com/gamedevpl/www.gamedev.pl/tree/master/game... (the idea and majority of code is AI generated)

- https://www.gamedev.pl/games/nukes/ - source: https://github.com/gamedevpl/www.gamedev.pl/tree/gh-pages/ga... (my idea for game, a lot of code is generated)

also the tool is developed using the tool itself

the difference compared to main-stream tools is that I can adjust it to my needs as much as I want.

Re: Ask HN: GitHub Copilot Alternatives

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Post by atmanactive » Thu, Aug 29, 2024, 6:39 PM UTC

hyldmo wrote: post #7

Here's a version that keeps closer to the original text while fixing the main typos: Very happy with https://supermaven.com . Switched to it from Copilot, and it's faster and has a much better understanding of what I'm trying to do. I think it uses a git diff + some other stuff that it feeds into the context window that makes it so that when I'm working on a new feature, when i’m creating say the 3rd it understands w…