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YesCopilot · 28 Jan 2024

the experience (and quality) of the GH + Intellij paring is much better than Codeium + VSC

tpmoney on Hacker News

In the thread “New GitHub Copilot research finds 'downward pressure on code quality'”, replying to this comment

Helped: Context-aware completion for repetitive changes and test writing.

Got in the way: Codeium in VSC had intrusive suggestions and lower quality.

The tool and design of the tool matters a lot. I've used Codeium in VSC and GH Copilot in Intellij, and the experience (and quality) of the GH + Intellij paring is much better than Codeium + VSC. My biggest use for AI assistants has been speeding up test writing and any "this but slightly different" repetitive changes to a code base (which admittedly is also a lot of test writing). …