[catlifeonmars]

> My hot take is that if GitHub copilot is your window into llms, you’re getting the motel experience.

I’ve long suspected this; I lean heavily on tab completion from copilot to speed up my coding. Unsurprisingly, it fails to read my mind a large portion of the time.

Thing is, mind reading tab completion is what I actually want in my tooling. It is easier for me to communicate via code rather than prose, and I find the experience of pausing and using natural language to be jarring and distracting.

Writing the code feels like a much more direct form of communicating my intent (in this case to the compiler/interpreter). Maybe I’m just weird; and to be honest I’m afraid to give up my “code first” communication style for programming.

Edit: I think the reason why I find the conversational approach so difficult is that I tend to think as I code. I have fairly strong ADHD and coding gives me appropriate amount of stimulation to do design work.

[maleldil]

Take a look at aider's watch mode. It seems like a bridge for code completion with more powerful models than Copilot.

https://aider.chat/docs/usage/watch.html

[catlifeonmars]

Thank you! I will check it out