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Re: Ask HN: GitHub Copilot Alternatives

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Post by arresin »

fallinditch wrote: post #19

I'm hearing some good things about Cursor, it's a fork of VS Code with AI built in, subscription based. Some VSCode extensions from a quick search: Tabnine Amazon Q Continue Codeium Blackbox CodeGPT Gemini Code Assist Cody Double

I tried cursor recently. It has potential but as it is is very alpha feeling and clunky. Better than copilot but maybe less productive.

And probably worse than the copilot, aider and vscode combo

Re: Ask HN: GitHub Copilot Alternatives

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Post by mattfrommars »

fallinditch wrote: post #19

I'm hearing some good things about Cursor, it's a fork of VS Code with AI built in, subscription based. Some VSCode extensions from a quick search: Tabnine Amazon Q Continue Codeium Blackbox CodeGPT Gemini Code Assist Cody Double

With all these agent, I am beginning to feel they all have the 'same' source and only differentiate in the UI/UX component. My mind is into the route to use AI agent as an exercise to create yet another, AI agent.

Re: Ask HN: GitHub Copilot Alternatives

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Post by fallinditch »

arresin wrote: post #21
fallinditch wrote: post #19

I'm hearing some good things about Cursor, it's a fork of VS Code with AI built in, subscription based. Some VSCode extensions from a quick search: Tabnine Amazon Q Continue Codeium Blackbox CodeGPT Gemini Code Assist Cody Double

I tried cursor recently. It has potential but as it is is very alpha feeling and clunky. Better than copilot but maybe less productive. And probably worse than the copilot, aider and vscode combo

In some ways it makes sense to run your own LLM locally, one that's optimized for your tech stack and code base. For this reason I prefer the concept of Continue to Cursor.

Re: Ask HN: GitHub Copilot Alternatives

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Post by PeterHuber »

I think Cursor is very useful, fully compatible with vscode, basically do not use their own code, write their own instructions, Cursor is fully executed, no matter how many times to modify, it will not complain. You can try it. I think you'll love it. Cursor: https://www.cursor.com/

Re: Ask HN: GitHub Copilot Alternatives

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Post by accidbuddy »

kenmacd wrote: post #14

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 no…

Interesting. Claude has (at least in my tests) best results than GitHub Copilot. About using in IntelliJ, I read some people talking about changing the Java Boot. Do you know what configuration I need to change?

"Keep in mind you currently may have to change your Java Boot Runtime for the IDE to make it work."

Re: Ask HN: GitHub Copilot Alternatives

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Post by solumunus »

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…

Supermaven is brilliant, been using it for probably 4 months and can't imagine ever cancelling this subscription unless something better comes out.
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