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Why do you go back to Copilot after trying Cody? (I’m the Sourcegraph CEO, and we make Cody.) We added Claude 3 Opus editor chat and also support GPT-4 Turbo. C

by sqs 2y ago

Why do you go back to Copilot after trying Cody? (I’m the Sourcegraph CEO, and we make Cody.) We added Claude 3 Opus editor chat and also support GPT-4 Turbo. Curious, why don’t you use in-editor chat? If you find those models helpful, then having in-editor chat with code context seems like it’d be useful to you.

joshstrange 2y ago
The Cody plugin (Intellij) threw multiple errors for me, over multiple days, with a paid account. When it didn't throw errors it either didn't suggest anything or suggested something I thought was worse than Copilot. I even toggled both plugins a few times and tested with Copilot and it always gave me what I expected. I tested over a span of about 5 days of coding. I kept feeling limited and wanting to switch back to Copilot, which, to be fair, has had a handful of outages/errors but not this many in this short of a time. I'm not sure if you write code, and I don't want to assume either direction, but if you don't and/or don't use these tools, let me share my experience. I now have a "sense" for when Copilot will have a good suggestion and I pause while writing code waiting for it to spit something out. Copilot earned this "respect", for lack of a better word, because it has shown me time and time again that it "knows" what I want. With Cody, I would reach a point where I wanted to wait for a suggestion, I'd wait, and I'd wait, then my focus is broken because I'm wondering why I'm not getting a suggestion, I look in the bottom status bar, and Cody has some red symbol on it. When I did get something back from Cody, I just felt the results were equal to or worse than Copilot. I only paid for Cody to get Claude 3 Opus and that's all I tried. In addition to bugs that caused Cody to not work, I had multiple plugin crashes reported to me by my IDE. Here [0] is one of the bugs I saw, it was the last one I got before I uninstalled Cody and canceled my Pro subscription. The last thing I'll say is that the purchase/activation process was not good. I signed up for an account, installed the plugin, logged in, realized if I wanted Claude 3 Opus I'd need a "Pro" account, bought a Pro account, went back to the plugin and had to log out and back in for it to realize I was a pro member. A "check membership status" button/option would be nice. I looked in the preferences and everything on the sidebar panel I could click on. I also tried opening/closing the panel and some other things I thought might trigger an account update call, no dice. It's whatever and I did eventually get it working (by logging out/in) but I wouldn't want that to be the user experience for someone who just gave me money so I thought I'd mention it. [0] https://github.com/sourcegraph/jetbrains/issues/1306 https://github.com/sourcegraph/jetbrains/issues/1306
- sqs 2y ago
  Thanks for the feedback and I’m sorry you had an awful experience here. We’re working on improving Cody for JetBrains a lot (our VS Code extension was first and JetBrains is in beta). This is helpful feedback and I hope we can earn your trust again in the future and make you love Cody.
  - joshstrange 2y ago
    I’d love to love Cody, I like the ability to choose newer/different models. When the JetBrains plugin gets better I’d try it again.

by sqs 2y ago

joshstrange 2y ago

The Cody plugin (Intellij) threw multiple errors for me, over multiple days, with a paid account. When it didn't throw errors it either didn't suggest anything or suggested something I thought was worse than Copilot. I even toggled both plugins a few times and tested with Copilot and it always gave me what I expected. I tested over a span of about 5 days of coding. I kept feeling limited and wanting to switch back to Copilot, which, to be fair, has had a handful of outages/errors but not this many in this short of a time. I'm not sure if you write code, and I don't want to assume either direction, but if you don't and/or don't use these tools, let me share my experience. I now have a "sense" for when Copilot will have a good suggestion and I pause while writing code waiting for it to spit something out. Copilot earned this "respect", for lack of a better word, because it has shown me time and time again that it "knows" what I want. With Cody, I would reach a point where I wanted to wait for a suggestion, I'd wait, and I'd wait, then my focus is broken because I'm wondering why I'm not getting a suggestion, I look in the bottom status bar, and Cody has some red symbol on it. When I did get something back from Cody, I just felt the results were equal to or worse than Copilot. I only paid for Cody to get Claude 3 Opus and that's all I tried. In addition to bugs that caused Cody to not work, I had multiple plugin crashes reported to me by my IDE. Here [0] is one of the bugs I saw, it was the last one I got before I uninstalled Cody and canceled my Pro subscription. The last thing I'll say is that the purchase/activation process was not good. I signed up for an account, installed the plugin, logged in, realized if I wanted Claude 3 Opus I'd need a "Pro" account, bought a Pro account, went back to the plugin and had to log out and back in for it to realize I was a pro member. A "check membership status" button/option would be nice. I looked in the preferences and everything on the sidebar panel I could click on. I also tried opening/closing the panel and some other things I thought might trigger an account update call, no dice. It's whatever and I did eventually get it working (by logging out/in) but I wouldn't want that to be the user experience for someone who just gave me money so I thought I'd mention it. [0] https://github.com/sourcegraph/jetbrains/issues/1306 https://github.com/sourcegraph/jetbrains/issues/1306

sqs 2y ago
Thanks for the feedback and I’m sorry you had an awful experience here. We’re working on improving Cody for JetBrains a lot (our VS Code extension was first and JetBrains is in beta). This is helpful feedback and I hope we can earn your trust again in the future and make you love Cody.
- joshstrange 2y ago
  I’d love to love Cody, I like the ability to choose newer/different models. When the JetBrains plugin gets better I’d try it again.