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Scam company that lies shamelessly on their homepage saying "helped tens of thousands of developers all over the world"

Tracking number of downloads? I can see it. 10,000 tries isn't much.

I tried the editor

Asked it to design an AI app using Python using a piezoelectric sensor to measure blood pressure.

It did a really good job, setup the whole project in a useful and helpful way.

Maybe give them a chance.

Trusted by tens of thousands of engineers at these companies?

How did you come up with that figure out of interest?

I'm pretty sure they're deceptively referring to VSCode proper.

The domain is strange, I recently submitted cursor.sh, but this has a .so TLD, so which is the canonical one?

Anyway, I saw this product but continued to use VSCode because with GitHub Copilot Chat [0], it's basically the same thing plus I don't want to run a fork of VSCode, who knows how often it'll be updated, compared to running VSCode directly.

[0] https://github.blog/2023-07-20-github-copilot-chat-beta-now-...

Is there a reason this has to be a fork instead of an extension? I guess it’s easier to customise it deeply but it would probably be better as a extension if possible

I'm not sure why it's not an extension either as GitHub Copilot Chat [0] is doing something very similar plus it's included in my Copilot subscription already.

[0] https://github.blog/2023-07-20-github-copilot-chat-beta-now-...

Well, for those who do not know, these features are available/coming to the official copilot AFAIKT.

https://github.com/features/preview/copilot-x

Why would someone pay for this over using ChatGPT or Copilot Chat? Yeah you might have to copy and paste instead of it writing directly in you editor but both of them offer way more than this especially ChatGPT.

On top of that Google is releasing a similar application (VSCode + AI) for free.

I don't see why they didn't just make this a plugin for VSCode editors. Probably would be a better product.

What do you all make of its "local mode"?

Not stored on their servers, they say. But is it transmitted to them or use a local LLM?

From what I can tell, their 'local' mode still can't use your own LLM model, just host it yourself, and still charged per request despite using my own hardware to run? Very confusing.

Nano works for me :)

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