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I'm interested in this and will probably set it up but I wish more AI tools were better integrated to my IDE. I know GH Copilot is and other big AI tools have p

I'm interested in this and will probably set it up but I wish more AI tools were better integrated to my IDE. I know GH Copilot is and other big AI tools have plugins with chat/edit features but most of the cool open source doesn't seem to support IDEA/JetBrains. I see the power of LLMs. I use GH Copilot, I use ChatGPT, but I crave deeper integration in my existing toolset. I need to force myself to try in-IDE Copilot Chat. My habit is to go to ChatGPT for anything of that nature and I'm not sure why that is. Sometimes it's the same way I break down my search to for things "I know I can find" then put together the results. In the same way I break down the problem into small pieces and have ChatGPT write them individually or somethings additively.

solumunus 3y ago
In my experience, Supermaven makes Copilot look like a joke, and they’ve just released a Jetbrains plugin. YMMV. It’s just code suggestions though, no chat box.
- hackerlight 3y ago
  Have you compared it to Sourcegraph Cody which also has a Jetbrains plugin? Same monthly cost as Supermaven.
  - joshstrange 3y ago
    I’ve tried Cody Pro. I canceled my subscription in 3 days. The plugin (for JetBrains at least) gave auth and other errors regularly and when it did work its completions were “meh” at best. I’ll admit some of that might be from me being used to what I get from GH Copilot but basic stuff like initializing a variable called “count” with `0` or “++”-ing it in a loop were both things it didn’t auto-complete. I switched back to Copilot and it did exactly what I expected. The polish is lacking with Cody and the errors are completely unacceptable in a paid product. I’ve seen 2 Copilot outages the entire time I’ve been using it (since before GA) so to have Cody barf up stupid errors multiple times in a 3-day period is just ridiculous.
- joshstrange 3y ago
  I’ll be trying this today, thank you for the suggestion. 300K context window is awesome. I actually like completions more, it feels more natural. I’m fine to go to ChatGPT/Opus to chat if needed.
  - solumunus 3y ago
    How did you get on?
Onawa 3y ago
I didn't get time to test it beyond installing it on VSCode today, but take a look at https://GitHub.com/continuedev/continue https://GitHub.com/continuedev/continue, Apache 2.0 license, and they have an IDEA/Jetbrains plugin. Plus codebase context, full configurability to use local or remote LLMs.
- joshstrange 3y ago
  I probably need to give it another try but I tried that before with my own GPT-4 key, a local model, and their models and just got errors last time I tried it. I hope that was just a temp issue but because of that I moved on. Also I've tried Cody Pro (again, weird errors and when it did work I felt like Copilot would have done better).
anotherpaulg 3y ago
Folks have developed VSCode and NeoVim integrations for aider. They're based on forks of aider, so I'm not sure how carefully their authors are keeping them up to date with aider releases. The aider install instructions has more info: https://aider.chat/docs/install.html#add-aider-to-your-editor-optional https://aider.chat/docs/install.html#add-aider-to-your-edito...
j45 3y ago
Aider works a little different where it doesn't just code complete or focus on a function level. It can solve much bigger problems.
thomashop 3y ago
I've been using https://cursor.sh/ https://cursor.sh/ heavily for about 2 months and I'm pretty happy. Cursor is a fork of VSCode focused on AI. I'd prefer to use something totally open-source, but Cursor is free, gets regular updates, and I can use my OpenAI API key. The diff view works well with AI coding assistants. I end up parallelizing more. I let cursor do its thing while I'm already looking at the next file. I love aider too! Have used it to automate things such as maintaining a translated version of the page in a git pre-commit hook.
aiauthoritydev 3y ago
What would be since is a single plugin that focuses only on UX and allows plug an play for AI models. I think we would benefit immensely from such a concept.

solumunus 3y ago

In my experience, Supermaven makes Copilot look like a joke, and they’ve just released a Jetbrains plugin. YMMV. It’s just code suggestions though, no chat box.

hackerlight 3y ago
Have you compared it to Sourcegraph Cody which also has a Jetbrains plugin? Same monthly cost as Supermaven.
- joshstrange 3y ago
  I’ve tried Cody Pro. I canceled my subscription in 3 days. The plugin (for JetBrains at least) gave auth and other errors regularly and when it did work its completions were “meh” at best. I’ll admit some of that might be from me being used to what I get from GH Copilot but basic stuff like initializing a variable called “count” with `0` or “++”-ing it in a loop were both things it didn’t auto-complete. I switched back to Copilot and it did exactly what I expected. The polish is lacking with Cody and the errors are completely unacceptable in a paid product. I’ve seen 2 Copilot outages the entire time I’ve been using it (since before GA) so to have Cody barf up stupid errors multiple times in a 3-day period is just ridiculous.
joshstrange 3y ago
I’ll be trying this today, thank you for the suggestion. 300K context window is awesome. I actually like completions more, it feels more natural. I’m fine to go to ChatGPT/Opus to chat if needed.
- solumunus 3y ago
  How did you get on?

Onawa 3y ago

I didn't get time to test it beyond installing it on VSCode today, but take a look at https://GitHub.com/continuedev/continue https://GitHub.com/continuedev/continue, Apache 2.0 license, and they have an IDEA/Jetbrains plugin. Plus codebase context, full configurability to use local or remote LLMs.

joshstrange 3y ago
I probably need to give it another try but I tried that before with my own GPT-4 key, a local model, and their models and just got errors last time I tried it. I hope that was just a temp issue but because of that I moved on. Also I've tried Cody Pro (again, weird errors and when it did work I felt like Copilot would have done better).

anotherpaulg 3y ago

Folks have developed VSCode and NeoVim integrations for aider. They're based on forks of aider, so I'm not sure how carefully their authors are keeping them up to date with aider releases. The aider install instructions has more info: https://aider.chat/docs/install.html#add-aider-to-your-editor-optional https://aider.chat/docs/install.html#add-aider-to-your-edito...

j45 3y ago

Aider works a little different where it doesn't just code complete or focus on a function level. It can solve much bigger problems.

thomashop 3y ago

I've been using https://cursor.sh/ https://cursor.sh/ heavily for about 2 months and I'm pretty happy. Cursor is a fork of VSCode focused on AI. I'd prefer to use something totally open-source, but Cursor is free, gets regular updates, and I can use my OpenAI API key. The diff view works well with AI coding assistants. I end up parallelizing more. I let cursor do its thing while I'm already looking at the next file. I love aider too! Have used it to automate things such as maintaining a translated version of the page in a git pre-commit hook.

aiauthoritydev 3y ago

What would be since is a single plugin that focuses only on UX and allows plug an play for AI models. I think we would benefit immensely from such a concept.