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Re:GitHub Copilot is now available for free by singularity2001 on Wednesday December 18, 2024 @04:11PM (#42455246)
Tried to move from JetBrains to VS Code with new Copilot Edit mode. Moved back to JetBrains and horribly outdated copy paste workflow ... for now. Disruption is imminent though. (And yes JetBrains AI integration got better but the 'insert code at cursor option' is laughable. There is a command to generate code right in the editor too, but not from chat. Also $10 extra. )

PS: One UI feature that I haven't seen anywhere yet is not splitting the screen into code and chat but unifying it.

Also a common approach (e.g. in openai composer) seems to be to modify the file line by line which takes a very long time if the file is long, which (agentic) tools use a diff approach instead?

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Re:GitHub Copilot is now available for free by eastbound on Wednesday December 18, 2024 @05:15PM (#42456053)
Jetbrains is getting laughingly bad at normal autocompletion.

Autocompletiok is losing features every day, it seems. Yes, Jetbrains might either be removing features to move them to AI, or breaking features involuntarily in order to move faster to implement AI.

Either way, AI is killing Jetbrains.

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Re:GitHub Copilot is now available for free by singularity2001 on Wednesday December 18, 2024 @06:43PM (#42456762)
Oh that's why; I thought my copilot got worse. I think it got replaced by the worse Jetbrains AI. Can I selectively deactivate it?
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Re:GitHub Copilot is now available for free by attentive on Wednesday December 18, 2024 @05:21PM (#42456119)
> which (agentic) tools use a diff approach instead?

aider

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