On: Aider: AI pair programming in your terminal

[solumunus]

In my experience, Supermaven makes Copilot look like a joke, and they’ve just released a Jetbrains plugin. YMMV. It’s just code suggestions though, no chat box.

[joshstrange → solumunus]

I’ll be trying this today, thank you for the suggestion. 300K context window is awesome.

I actually like completions more, it feels more natural. I’m fine to go to ChatGPT/Opus to chat if needed.

[solumunus → joshstrange]

How did you get on?

[hackerlight → solumunus]

Have you compared it to Sourcegraph Cody which also has a Jetbrains plugin? Same monthly cost as Supermaven.

[joshstrange → hackerlight]

I’ve tried Cody Pro. I canceled my subscription in 3 days. The plugin (for JetBrains at least) gave auth and other errors regularly and when it did work its completions were “meh” at best.

I’ll admit some of that might be from me being used to what I get from GH Copilot but basic stuff like initializing a variable called “count” with `0` or “++”-ing it in a loop were both things it didn’t auto-complete. I switched back to Copilot and it did exactly what I expected.

The polish is lacking with Cody and the errors are completely unacceptable in a paid product. I’ve seen 2 Copilot outages the entire time I’ve been using it (since before GA) so to have Cody barf up stupid errors multiple times in a 3-day period is just ridiculous.