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		james_marks on Jan 3, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Can LLMs write better code if you keep asking them... After 6 months of co-pilot autocomplete in my text editor feeling like an uninformed back seat driver with access to the wheel, I turned it off yesterday. It’s night and day to what I get from Claude sonnet 3.5 in their UI, and even then only on mainstream languages.

hu3 on Jan 4, 2025 | [–]

I like copilot for completing one liners.

Also Copilot Chat in VSCode works like Cursor IDE if you provide #codebase in the prompt.

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