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And I'm still waiting for the simple feature – the ability to edit documents in projects.

I use projects for working on different documents - articles, research, scripts, etc. And would absolutely love to write it paragraph after paragraph with the help of ChatGPT for phrasing and using the project knowledge. Or using voice mode - i.e. on a walk "Hey, where did we finish that document - let's continue. Read the last two paragraphs to me... Okay, I want to elaborate on ...".

I feel like AI agents for coding are advancing at a breakneck speed, but assistance in writing is still limited to copy-pasting.

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>I feel like AI agents for coding are advancing at a breakneck speed, but assistance in writing is still limited to copy-pasting.

Man I was talking about this with a colleague 30min ago. Half the time i can't be bothered to open chat gpt and do the copy/paste dance. I know that sounds ridiculous but roundtripping gets old and breaks my flow. Working in NLE's with plug-in's, VTT's, etc. has spoiled me.

Have you tried writing text in VS Code? I haven’t ever considered the use case before this moment and don’t have a system available to test.

But basically would it be successful if you had a workspace and used the coding agent to write text instead?

As a use case, consider the act of writing a novel where you might have a folder with files that each contain a skeleton of a chapter, then another folder with the first draft of each chapter in separate files, then another folder for the second draft, and so on.

Maybe not the best architecture but I just had the idea 20 seconds ago so it could use some cook time.

It's crazy. Aider has been able to do this forever using free models but none of these companies will even let you pay for it in a phone/web app. I almost feel like I should start building my own service but I know any day now they'd offer it and I'd have wasted all that effort.

Have you tried the Canvas feature for collaborative writing? Agreed on voice mode - would be great to be able to narrate while doing busywork round the house.

As I understand, Canvas belongs to the chat and no to the project. If there was a way to link Canvas/artifact to the project - that would do the trick.

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