I love copilot as an autocomplete tool... but it frequently gets things wrong, and using the chat feature to ask it to complete some task usually just generates code that breaks things. So until that improves, Im skeptical a workspace tool would work.
Workspace seems like an awesome idea though.. once the tech is further along.
It's a fork of VS Code with some AI features sprinkled in. It writes around 80% of my code, these days.
It also has a few useful features:
- a chat interface where you can @-mention files, folders, and even documentation
- if you edit a line of code, it suggests edits around that line that are useful (e.g. you change a variable name and it will suggest updating the other uses, which you accept just by pressing Tab)
- as you're writing/editing code, it will suggest where your cursor might go next — press Tab and your cursor jumps there
You could use something like Little Snitch (on Mac) to check if it makes any calls to their servers.
They also allow you to override the URL for the OpenAI models, so although I haven't tried, perhaps you can use local models on your own machine.
> Even if you use your API key, your requests will still go through our backend!
> That's where we do our final prompt building.