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I currently use LLMs as a glorified Stack Overflow. If I want to start integrating an LLM like Gemini 2.5 PRO into my IDE (I use Visual Studio Code), whats the

I currently use LLMs as a glorified Stack Overflow. If I want to start integrating an LLM like Gemini 2.5 PRO into my IDE (I use Visual Studio Code), whats the best way to do this? I don't want to use a platform like Cursor or Claude Code which takes me away from my IDE.

hedgehog 1y ago
GitHub Copilot is pretty easy to try within VS Code
- fumeux_fume 1y ago
  I want to use Gemini 2.5 PRO. I was an early tester of Copilot and it was awful.
  - kgwgk 1y ago
    https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/reference/ai-models/supported-ai-models-in-copilot https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/reference/ai-models/suppo...
    - fumeux_fume 1y ago
      Thank you! When I was testing out Copilot I was stuck with whatever default LLM was being used. Didn't realize you could switch it out for a non-MS/OpenAI model.
      - hedgehog 1y ago
        In my testing Sonnet 4 is far better than any of the Google or OpenAI models.
  - haiku2077 1y ago
    Copilot has 2.5 Pro in the settings in github.com, along with claude 4
physicles 1y ago
Cursor is an IDE. You can use its powerful (but occasionally wrong) autocomplete, and start asking it to do small coding tasks using the Ctrl+L side window.
- fumeux_fume 1y ago
  I don't want to leave my IDE
  - Philpax 1y ago
    Worth noting that Cursor is a VS Code fork and you can copy all of your settings over to it. Not saying that you have to, of course, but that it's perhaps not as different as you might be imagining.
  - anthomtb 1y ago
    Does running a Claude Code command in VSCode's integrated terminal count as leaving your IDE? (We may have differing definitions of "leaving" ones IDE).
  - cyral 1y ago
    I don't either but unfortunately Cursor is better than all the other plugins for IDEs like JetBrains. I just tab over to cursor and prompt it, then edit the code in my IDE of choice.
Tiksi 1y ago
There's a gemini vscode plugin that does autocomplete and chatbot modes: https://cloud.google.com/gemini/docs/codeassist/write-code-gemini https://cloud.google.com/gemini/docs/codeassist/write-code-g...

hedgehog 1y ago

GitHub Copilot is pretty easy to try within VS Code

fumeux_fume 1y ago
I want to use Gemini 2.5 PRO. I was an early tester of Copilot and it was awful.
- kgwgk 1y ago
  https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/reference/ai-models/supported-ai-models-in-copilot https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/reference/ai-models/suppo...
  - fumeux_fume 1y ago
    Thank you! When I was testing out Copilot I was stuck with whatever default LLM was being used. Didn't realize you could switch it out for a non-MS/OpenAI model.
    - hedgehog 1y ago
      In my testing Sonnet 4 is far better than any of the Google or OpenAI models.
- haiku2077 1y ago
  Copilot has 2.5 Pro in the settings in github.com, along with claude 4

physicles 1y ago

Cursor is an IDE. You can use its powerful (but occasionally wrong) autocomplete, and start asking it to do small coding tasks using the Ctrl+L side window.

fumeux_fume 1y ago
I don't want to leave my IDE
- Philpax 1y ago
  Worth noting that Cursor is a VS Code fork and you can copy all of your settings over to it. Not saying that you have to, of course, but that it's perhaps not as different as you might be imagining.
- anthomtb 1y ago
  Does running a Claude Code command in VSCode's integrated terminal count as leaving your IDE? (We may have differing definitions of "leaving" ones IDE).
- cyral 1y ago
  I don't either but unfortunately Cursor is better than all the other plugins for IDEs like JetBrains. I just tab over to cursor and prompt it, then edit the code in my IDE of choice.

Tiksi 1y ago

There's a gemini vscode plugin that does autocomplete and chatbot modes: https://cloud.google.com/gemini/docs/codeassist/write-code-gemini https://cloud.google.com/gemini/docs/codeassist/write-code-g...