you're not. looks like that's kind of it, but would the thing have the context of the whole project when I'm in a file/class/function? With copilot, in my case, it was so far mostly like a fancy autocomplete that has immediate vicinity in its memory where it would be vastly more useful if it had the context of the whole project / all files.

Cursor indexes the entire code use with embeddings. It works well in small single app projects

it is also the "right thing to do" IMHO.

the vscode extension cline also does this