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Re: GitHub Copilot App

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Post by matthew_hre »

Unrelated to the feature itself, but remember a few months ago when someone posted Github's beta feature for stacked PRs, and a ton of people slammed them for releasing a seemingly vibe-coded site? To quote Mitchell Hashimoto, "One of the most requested GitHub features in years and the website looks like it was designed by someone 9 years into a 2 year community college program."[1]

When opening the posted link, my first thought was "imagine if the stacked PRs site had the same amount of effort put into it as the Github Copilot App site". They clearly have other preview features on this site already, so maybe I'm just confused on why stacked PRs got some b-grade announcement site. The obvious answer is "copilot", but I'm still curious.

[1] https://x.com/mitchellh/status/2043788123008868600

Re: GitHub Copilot App

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Post by 2001zhaozhao »

It's kind of interesting that everyone is going for the desktop app format now.

These desktop agentic coding tools are a large UX step up from the CLIs, but I still think the future is going to be remote development as the coding agents start running for hours at a time. Building a desktop app seems short-sighted as it would just lock them out of the remote option completely.

Re: GitHub Copilot App

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Post by inerte »

I know it has the same functionality, but it also looks like the Codex app which looks like Cursor Agents! Are they sharing some VS Code primitive here?

Re: GitHub Copilot App

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Post by panos_news »

2001zhaozhao wrote: post #4

It's kind of interesting that everyone is going for the desktop app format now. These desktop agentic coding tools are a large UX step up from the CLIs, but I still think the future is going to be remote development as the coding agents start running for hours at a time. Building a desktop app seems short-sighted as it would just lock them out of the remote option completely.

I think their goal is to lock you into their ecosystem instead of using your IDE

Re: GitHub Copilot App

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Post by dangoor »

2001zhaozhao wrote: post #4

It's kind of interesting that everyone is going for the desktop app format now. These desktop agentic coding tools are a large UX step up from the CLIs, but I still think the future is going to be remote development as the coding agents start running for hours at a time. Building a desktop app seems short-sighted as it would just lock them out of the remote option completely.

You can get to it wherever you want. Copilot CLI is pretty great: https://github.com/features/copilot/cli

There's support in VS Code and Jetbrains IDEs. You can access your agent sessions on the web.

(I work at GitHub, but not on Copilot)

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