> this stuff is not bottle-necked on model quality but on UX. Chat is not that great of an interface. Copy pasting blobs of text back to an editor seems like it is a bit monkey work. And monkey work should be automated.
I agree wholeheartedly and that's why I recommend cursor to the point I'm being called a shill for them. I have no relationship to them, but they've shipped the first product that actually addresses this!
They have a "small model" that takes a suggestion in the chat mode (provided by claude3.5 usually but o1 / 4o also work) and "magic merges" it into your codebase at the click of a button. It feels like such an easy task, but I bet it's not and a lot of tinkering went into it and the small mdoel they use. But the UX results are great. You start a chat, frame the problem, get an answer, hit "apply" and see it go line by line and incorporate the changes into your existing code.
I agree wholeheartedly and that's why I recommend cursor to the point I'm being called a shill for them. I have no relationship to them, but they've shipped the first product that actually addresses this!
They have a "small model" that takes a suggestion in the chat mode (provided by claude3.5 usually but o1 / 4o also work) and "magic merges" it into your codebase at the click of a button. It feels like such an easy task, but I bet it's not and a lot of tinkering went into it and the small mdoel they use. But the UX results are great. You start a chat, frame the problem, get an answer, hit "apply" and see it go line by line and incorporate the changes into your existing code.
Give it a try.