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I only use Copilot for code completion, the other features are insufferably bad, at least in my IDE. I’m beginning to feel like I’m seriously overpaying. Does MS not update their completion model, or is it just my impression that suggestion quality has been stagnant for literally years? Do you guys know any cloud based code completion services with performance superior to Copilot?

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Try Cody from source graph, its quiet light at least on VSCode + Mac and it is very customizable and has models across OpenAI and Anthropic

Does Cody have an agent mode? I have the free vesion and it doesn't seem to. IMO coding assistant without agent mode is useless, it's useful just only for asking questions.

Copilot used to be much worse than Cursor but they have agent mode and MCP now.

Also I use Cody as a backup because I thought their ollama support means I can code on the plane, but when I actually tried, it stills requiring SourceGraph access and failed.

I felt the same way in an earlier HN thread a few weeks ago and some suggested tools like Cursor.

Cursor has been way way better. And agent mode now makes me feel like there’s something more to this AI coding stuff than just fluff.

I also only use the code completion. I recently started using the Continue extension in VSCode running local models. They get the job done and it's free.

Supermaven is very good if you're using VSCode and not cursor/windsurf tab completes - both of which are significantly better than standard.

It is unfortunately also abandoned. The creator got an offer from Cursor to integrate it last Sepmtember and abandoned it, seems likely it was part of the contract. By the looks of it he also didn't refund subscribers, not a good look.

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