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And I'm still waiting for the simple feature – the ability to edit documents in projects. I use projects for working on different documents - articles, researc

by divan 1y ago

And I'm still waiting for the simple feature – the ability to edit documents in projects. I use projects for working on different documents - articles, research, scripts, etc. And would absolutely love to write it paragraph after paragraph with the help of ChatGPT for phrasing and using the project knowledge. Or using voice mode - i.e. on a walk "Hey, where did we finish that document - let's continue. Read the last two paragraphs to me... Okay, I want to elaborate on ...". I feel like AI agents for coding are advancing at a breakneck speed, but assistance in writing is still limited to copy-pasting.

Forgeties79 1y ago
>I feel like AI agents for coding are advancing at a breakneck speed, but assistance in writing is still limited to copy-pasting. Man I was talking about this with a colleague 30min ago. Half the time i can't be bothered to open chat gpt and do the copy/paste dance. I know that sounds ridiculous but roundtripping gets old and breaks my flow. Working in NLE's with plug-in's, VTT's, etc. has spoiled me.
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msgodel 1y ago
It's crazy. Aider has been able to do this forever using free models but none of these companies will even let you pay for it in a phone/web app. I almost feel like I should start building my own service but I know any day now they'd offer it and I'd have wasted all that effort.
ainch 1y ago
Have you tried the Canvas feature for collaborative writing? Agreed on voice mode - would be great to be able to narrate while doing busywork round the house.
- divan 1y ago
  As I understand, Canvas belongs to the chat and no to the project. If there was a way to link Canvas/artifact to the project - that would do the trick.
cheschire 1y ago
Have you tried writing text in VS Code? I haven’t ever considered the use case before this moment and don’t have a system available to test. But basically would it be successful if you had a workspace and used the coding agent to write text instead? As a use case, consider the act of writing a novel where you might have a folder with files that each contain a skeleton of a chapter, then another folder with the first draft of each chapter in separate files, then another folder for the second draft, and so on. Maybe not the best architecture but I just had the idea 20 seconds ago so it could use some cook time.

by divan 1y ago

Forgeties79 1y ago

>I feel like AI agents for coding are advancing at a breakneck speed, but assistance in writing is still limited to copy-pasting. Man I was talking about this with a colleague 30min ago. Half the time i can't be bothered to open chat gpt and do the copy/paste dance. I know that sounds ridiculous but roundtripping gets old and breaks my flow. Working in NLE's with plug-in's, VTT's, etc. has spoiled me.

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msgodel 1y ago

It's crazy. Aider has been able to do this forever using free models but none of these companies will even let you pay for it in a phone/web app. I almost feel like I should start building my own service but I know any day now they'd offer it and I'd have wasted all that effort.

ainch 1y ago

Have you tried the Canvas feature for collaborative writing? Agreed on voice mode - would be great to be able to narrate while doing busywork round the house.

divan 1y ago
As I understand, Canvas belongs to the chat and no to the project. If there was a way to link Canvas/artifact to the project - that would do the trick.

cheschire 1y ago

Have you tried writing text in VS Code? I haven’t ever considered the use case before this moment and don’t have a system available to test. But basically would it be successful if you had a workspace and used the coding agent to write text instead? As a use case, consider the act of writing a novel where you might have a folder with files that each contain a skeleton of a chapter, then another folder with the first draft of each chapter in separate files, then another folder for the second draft, and so on. Maybe not the best architecture but I just had the idea 20 seconds ago so it could use some cook time.