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by microtonal 405 days ago
Claude is still the gold standard for AI assisted coding. All your Geminis and o3s of the world still don’t match up to Claude.

I might be missing something, but you can use Claude 3.7 in Copilot Chat:

https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/using-github-copilot/ai-m...

VS Code with your favorite model in Copilot is rapidly catching up with Cursor, etc. It's not there yet, but the trajectory is good.

(Maybe you meant code completion? But even smaller, local models do pretty well in code completion.)
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nprateem 405 days ago
When I tried Claude in copilot it was so obviously crippled as to be useless. I deleted copilot and never went back.
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miroljub 405 days ago
Care to explain why? Isn't the Claude version in Copilot exactly the same as in Claude Code?
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nprateem 405 days ago
It was just obviously worse than using the anthropic website. That was the only explanation for why it was so bad. They could offer it free because it was stupid even if the same version (maybe less resources). Or maybe I was just unlucky but that's what it seemed to me.
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asaddhamani 405 days ago
Sonnet in Copilot is crippled, Copilot agent mode is also very basic and failed every time I tried it. It would have been amazing 2 years ago, but now it's very meh.

GitHub is losing money on the subs, but they are definitely trying to reduce the bleed. One way to do that is to cut corners with LLM usage, by not sending as much context, trimming the context window, capping output token limits, these are all things Cursor also does btw, hence why Cline, with almost the same tech (in some ways its even inferior tech) achieves better results. I have hit $20 in API usage within a single day with Cline, Cursor lets you have "unlimited" usage for $20 for a month. So its optimised for saving costs, not for giving you the best experience. At $10 per month for Copilot, they need to save costs even more. So you get a bad experience, you think its the AI that is not capable, but the problem is with the companies burning VC money to corner the market, setting unrealistic expectations on pricing, etc.

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