[dymk]

But why hire a therapist when Gemini is there to talk to?

Re: Github Copilot: IME it's already behind. I finally gave Cursor a try after seeing it brought up so often, and its suggestions and refactors are leagues ahead of what Copilot can do.

[hiatus]

> But why hire a therapist when Gemini is there to talk to?

Well for one, there's no doctor patient confidentiality.

[maeil]

It is behind, but I think that's intentional. They can simply wait and see which of the competing VSCode AI forks/extensions gains the most traction and then acquire them or just imitate and improve. Very little reason to push the boundaries for them right now.

[RamblingCTO]

Because the most important part of therapy for a lot of things is the human connection, not so much the knowledge. Therapy is important, the US system is just stupid