Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
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Arjun
@ananthsridhar.eth
Cursor might be a good alternative to VS Code. Has a good integration with the LLMs and you can literally chat with/about a codebase without leaving the environment https://www.cursor.com/
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Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
I’m using vs code mainly because rover project and embedded stuff seems to require it according to @anurajenp I’m not really programming much. Just pulling and running Anuraj code on my hardware. But might do more and might as well stay there. I assume vs code has GitHub copilot integration since both are Microsoft
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Arjun
@ananthsridhar.eth
My programming literacy is embarrassingly low [ outside of some routine python scripts ] but my goal of knowing just enough to be dangerous seems more probable [ and fun tbh ] with Cursor. my understanding is that Github Copilot excels at autocompletion but Cursor ( also a fork of VS Code ) seem to have gone one step further in making the "chat" experience fully context aware of the entire codebase by default. So, from my limited experience, I had more success in my effort to understand a complex codebase and all of its messy glory better with Cursor... Screenshot is a sample Q&A from the interface. now, im curious to play with the rover codebase in Cursor. Will give it a go soon and report back. :)
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Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
I'll wait for the anuraj seal of approval :D I kinda prefer the code help from within generic chat interfaces like chatgpt than dedicated ides. I'm kinda hoping specialist ides are not needed in the future. Just a Jarvis type thing that can do it all.
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Anuraj R
@anurajenp
vs code is only needed because the extensions make it easier for beginners to deal with lot of the stuff and without those affordances I am sure majority of the people would give up embedded. Code completion can be done in any interface. I have seen people do it inside vim with a vim plugin. And one more thing these coding assistants are least helpful in debugging embedded stuff. I am sure embedded jobs are safe for quite some time. Infact I think embedded skillset might more become valuable as the coding part becomes easier.
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Arjun
@ananthsridhar.eth
Ooh yeah, I missed the embedded specific plugins. That seems like a whole different beast. and very interesting take on the embedded skills becoming more valuable in time with code writing getting trivialized
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