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Has anyone compared the updated Copilot with Cursor? The main updates I am wondering about are model selection and multi-file edits. I used copilot before these features, changed to Cursor and now I am wondering how much Copilot has closed the gap.

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Have already moved to Cursor and realised I was only paying Github for Co-pilot - have downgraded immediately. No affiliation to Cursor, but the results are just a lot better and I don't need to be paying $20 to them AND $10 to co-pilot :/

I've been loving Copilot Edits (their take on the multi file edits stuff). I'm personally still doing the process of finding and adding files to its context/working set (letting it try to do that part just doesn't work great yet), but then it quickly applied edits and gives you a review/checkpoint UI.

The UI is still changing slightly every couple weeks as they improve things and polish it, but it's become a big enough part of my day to day that it's pretty much always open on the right pane of vscode for me.

I'm using Copilot daily and I didn't find any improvements over last year. I think they introduced something called Copilot Edits which works kind of like aider judging from screenshots, but it's experimental, so I didn't try it. It's basically glorified autocomplete and that's about it. At least I didn't discover anything new.

The glorified autocomplete only applies to the completions. Granted, that's often the primary interaction, but it isn't the whole story. Using chat+edits can enable copilot to make changes across entire file(s). I still haven't found it perfectly reliable for large scale edits, but it has proved useful for handling the sort of busywork that may occur when refactoring. I'd love to hear stories where copilot actually made meaningful contributions to unique/interesting projects. The demo's often showcase making mundane modifications to yet-another-website or spawning a project into existence, which is neither very compelling nor something I do often.

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