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GitHub Copilot: The Agent Awakens

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Re: GitHub Copilot: The Agent Awakens

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Post by nirava »

theasisa wrote: post #10
lolinder wrote: post #3

They'd better get on the IntelliJ integration fast— if I'm going to switch editors in order to use an LLM coding assistant, I may as well just switch to Cursor, which has a strong head start on them on the assistant and also has a much better autocomplete. I'm honestly surprised to see no mention here of them moving to replicate Cursor's autocomplete—IMO that is where Cursor's real edge lies. Anyone can wrap a chatbo…

I tried Cursor a couple of years ago and wasn't impressed - has it improved a lot? I only use autocomplete, not the chat function and at the time found CoPilot superior.

I'd written off AI autocomplete as pointless after trying GitHub Copilot's a year ago.

But Cursor's tab-autocomplete is actually really useful. It feels like it very much knows what I'm up to.

Re: GitHub Copilot: The Agent Awakens

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Post by hshshshshsh »

yawnxyz wrote: post #15
anonzzzies wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Who is 'all'?

not sure, but apparently > Cursor is the fastest-growing SaaS company of all time from $1M to $100M in ARR, hitting the $100M milestone in roughly 12 months at the end of 2024—faster than Wiz (18 months), Deel (20 months), and Ramp (24 months). Source: https://sacra.com/c/cursor

Makes sense cause everyone went to Wiz, Deel and Ramp.

Re: GitHub Copilot: The Agent Awakens

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Post by cruffle_duffle »

lolinder wrote: post #3

They'd better get on the IntelliJ integration fast— if I'm going to switch editors in order to use an LLM coding assistant, I may as well just switch to Cursor, which has a strong head start on them on the assistant and also has a much better autocomplete. I'm honestly surprised to see no mention here of them moving to replicate Cursor's autocomplete—IMO that is where Cursor's real edge lies. Anyone can wrap a chatbo…

I wish cursor was an extension of VSCode and not a fork.

Re: GitHub Copilot: The Agent Awakens

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Post by ddalex »

bramhaag wrote: post #19

It can suggest terminal commands and ask you to execute them People were already blindly copy pasting commands from StackExchange answers, but at least those are moderated. I wonder how long it takes before someone nukes their project or root directory.

nuke a project or root is the best case scenario

Re: GitHub Copilot: The Agent Awakens

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Post by hidingOnBush »

lolinder wrote: post #3

They'd better get on the IntelliJ integration fast— if I'm going to switch editors in order to use an LLM coding assistant, I may as well just switch to Cursor, which has a strong head start on them on the assistant and also has a much better autocomplete. I'm honestly surprised to see no mention here of them moving to replicate Cursor's autocomplete—IMO that is where Cursor's real edge lies. Anyone can wrap a chatbo…

People are sleeping on codeium. I've found their AI assistant to be much better than cursor

Re: GitHub Copilot: The Agent Awakens

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Post by rvz »

Wonderful! Another thing that will have downtime from the folks that brought you GitHub Actions (which goes down every month)

Now when GitHub Copilot and its Agents go down are you just going to be waiting for it to fix your critical issue, or will you just roll your sleaves up and do it yourself?

Can't wait for these agents to all stop working all at the same time the moment GitHub has another outage.

Re: GitHub Copilot: The Agent Awakens

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Post by lolinder »

hidingOnBush wrote: post #25
lolinder wrote: post #3

They'd better get on the IntelliJ integration fast— if I'm going to switch editors in order to use an LLM coding assistant, I may as well just switch to Cursor, which has a strong head start on them on the assistant and also has a much better autocomplete. I'm honestly surprised to see no mention here of them moving to replicate Cursor's autocomplete—IMO that is where Cursor's real edge lies. Anyone can wrap a chatbo…

People are sleeping on codeium. I've found their AI assistant to be much better than cursor

How's their autocomplete? I'm honestly not interested in tighter integration of chatbots. What blew me away about Cursor was how much better it was at autocomplete. I honestly probably would have tried it sooner if people emphasized that strongly enough in online dialogs, but it weirdly always seems to get relegated to an afterthought compared to the flashy chatbot, which was... fine, I guess?

Re: GitHub Copilot: The Agent Awakens

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Post by hassleblad23 »

lolinder wrote: post #3

They'd better get on the IntelliJ integration fast— if I'm going to switch editors in order to use an LLM coding assistant, I may as well just switch to Cursor, which has a strong head start on them on the assistant and also has a much better autocomplete. I'm honestly surprised to see no mention here of them moving to replicate Cursor's autocomplete—IMO that is where Cursor's real edge lies. Anyone can wrap a chatbo…

Github has completely abandoned the Intellij Copilot plugin it seems. Even model selection is not supported. This is good for Jetbrains though because they have their own competing AI service. Jetbrains AI doesn't support multiline edits in tab completion or chat, but it does in the inline prompt mode (although its limited to the same file only).
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