[fredliu]

Would be curious to see if anyone find it really useful. I've tried both Copilot and Codewhisper (Amazon Q now) before, wasn't impressed and uninstalled both. Just tried Q in VSCode again, I can't figure out how to ask questions relevant to the specific workspace that's useful to me. It seems like a bolt-on chat interface to your IDE with a bad UX. Feels like even "clippy" was more useful back in the day...

[throwup238]

I tried out Copilot Workspaces before they fixed the waitlist access check yesterday and it seems to work a lot better by running a multistep process and allowing the user to incrementally modify the plan and rerun code generation.

The UI is similar to the code review interface except the file list on the left is generated from a plan and there's a bullet point list for each file of changes the plan generates. It enables a REPL loop where the AI code gens, the user tests the changes, then updates the file plans and reruns code generation again, creating and adding files as necessary. The end result is a PR with generated description or a commit direct to main.

I'm excited for this next wave of AI coding agents but Amazon seems to have rushed this into production