GitHub Copilot: The Agent Awakens

Post by diggan » Thu, Feb 06, 2025, 6:49 PM UTC

tomduncalf wrote: post #67

machine_ghost wrote: post #51

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I don't know Cursor, but VS Code is a very full-featured editor with many years behind it; I rather doubt an upstart editor could achieve full feature parity with it so quickly. But that's almost beside the point: even if it had perfectly identical functionality, people would still want to use VS Code, if only for its well-established ecosystem of extensions.

Cursor is a fork of VS Code so most of the UI is identical and it can use the majority of extensions. Some extensions are MS only though and they may start using this as a moat, who knows!

Post by isidorn » Thu, Feb 06, 2025, 6:50 PM UTC

Piterniel wrote: post #65

anonzzzies wrote: post #18

I downloaded Insiders and installed Github Copilot Chat, getting: "GitHub Copilot Chat is not compatible with this version of VS Code. Please make sure that you have the latest versions of the extension and VS Code installed."

Same here

Post by hole_in_foot » Thu, Feb 06, 2025, 6:52 PM UTC

Post by post-it » Thu, Feb 06, 2025, 6:54 PM UTC

suyash wrote: post #60

johnfn wrote: post #36

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In a world where programmers can be replaced, it's less clear to me that plumbers, janitors, electricians, construction laborers, etc, are also all out of a job.

Here is a saying that I really think summarises "AI will replace white-collar jobs and Robotics will replace blue-collar jobs".

Post by simonw » Thu, Feb 06, 2025, 6:58 PM UTC

dabinat wrote: post #5

I use Copilot and it’s a game-changer for my productivity, but I really wish it was capable of natural language searching. So for example I could ask it “show me all places in the code where x is assigned a value but a flush() command is not immediately issued afterwards”.

    files-to-prompt datasette tests -e py -c | \
      llm -m gemini-2.0-flash-exp -u \
      'which of these files contain tests that indirectly exercise the label_column_for_table() function'