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Re:Show HN: Aide, an open-source AI native IDE by DeathArrow on Thursday November 07, 2024 @05:05AM (#42075293)
But why use the web interface instead of Copilot, Cursor, Zed, Cline, Aider?
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Re:Show HN: Aide, an open-source AI native IDE by jeswin on Thursday November 07, 2024 @07:30PM (#42082790)
There are some advantages.

1) Cost. More people have ChatGPT/Claude than CoPilot. And it's cheaper to load large contexts into ChatGPT than into the API. For example, o1-preview is $15/million tokens. And it's a fixed $20/m that someone can use for everything else as well.

Of course, there are times when I just use the VS Code plugin via API as well.

2) I want to stay in VS Code. So that excludes some of the options you mentioned

3) I don't find tiled VSCode + ChatGPT much of a hindrance.

4) Things might have improved a bit, but previously the Web-based chat interface was more refined/mature than the integrated interface.

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