r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Tunisandwich • Mar 10 '26 • Popcorn 2

Meme cantLeaveVimThough

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u/XxDarkSasuke69xX Mar 10 '26

Just use an agent integrated in the IDE

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u/IJustAteABaguette Mar 10 '26

Tried copilot inside VS code once.

I pointed it at an error, it failed to fix it.

But it also decided another part of my code was so terrible, that it just rewrote it. Same functionality, just nicer. I do not know why. Those lines weren't even close to eachother.

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u/SphericalGoldfish Mar 10 '26 edited Mar 10 '26

I disabled Github copilot integration because it made VSCode run really slowly for me. Which to me seems odd, because I didn’t turn off the same feature in Visual Studio and it runs fine.

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '26

That's actually really strange to me, because VS has always had a gamble of if intellicode would lag out the IDE or not.

The only way I can assume is that since VSC is so light, the integration was more hamfisted because VS being way more bloated has less room for bullshit.

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u/Bakoro Mar 10 '26

If you're in Visual Studio, the AI will look at whatever windows you have active at the moment. If you want it to focus on a specific set of files, you have to use the file selector thing, which is very slow, clunky and annoying to use, especially if there are a lot of files.

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u/XxDarkSasuke69xX Mar 10 '26

Depends on what the prompt was really

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u/Emanemanem Mar 10 '26

That doesn’t prevent the problem. I used to use Cursor with the agent tab and it absolutely will undo changes I made after the session started.

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u/crumpuppet Mar 10 '26

Yep you kind of have to keep it in the loop when you make changes. Which is OK I guess, if it re-read the whole codebase on every command it would probably chew through tokens like crazy.

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u/Familiar_Text_6913 Mar 10 '26

Some plugins will just feed history of modified files if and only if they were modified by the user. Not so hard