On: Tell HN: GPT copilots aren’t that great for programming

[bugglebeetle]

Co-pilot is junk. The only thing that works passably for coding is ChatGPT using GPT-4 and prompts where you ask it write and then implement a software spec, stopping after each code section to ask for review and revisions.

[gremlinsinc → bugglebeetle]

have you tried codeium? it's pretty good for a free tool, it also does RAG against your whole project

[esafak → gremlinsinc]

Does codeium let you ask questions about the whole codebase, such as "which function handles foo?" or "what are the files under folder bar collectively responsible for?"