Useful AI coding tools?

[oguruma]

What is everybody’s favorite (or least favorite) AI coding tools?

I have a few web app based projects that I work on semi-professionally.

I’ve used ChatGPT (as in, manually typing in prompts to their web UI) to help me write code, but I’m assuming there is a much more efficient way to do this.

What tools do you guys use to help with coding? What problems do they solve?

[TObject]

If you mean tools to use AI while coding, then there are GitHub Copilot and JetBrains AI Assistant. Their primary advantage is integration wit IDEs. Tools like these try to be smart and feed relevant parts of your oroject to the LLMs.

The results are mixed, but most would agree that they are great time savers.

HTH

[oguruma]

Do they only have the context of the existing file that I am editing? Or do they somehow try to understand the entirety of the codebase?

[TObject]

Indeed, a valid concern regarding these tools is their occasional lack of adequate contextual information about the project.

Typically, the context provided is limited to the current file, any open files, and the names of files within the project, all constrained by the size of the prompt window.

[Zszywany]

Local Ai, Any recommendations for local run Ai for coding

Hello fellow nerdy peeps, On links with friends today Wendell mentioned using a loacl ai model to help with coding. I was wondering if any of ya’ll have any recommendations for which models might be good to play around with?

[progressEdd]

@oguruma

What tools do you guys use to help with coding? What problems do they solve?

For work, we get access to github copilot + chat. Occasionally if there is a newer library than the training data, I might use chatgpt4 to have the llm research a topic for me on the internet

For home, personal projects I’ve been switching between Chatgpt Pro and my local ollama + twiny + vscodium

Adventures in coding using AI

Overall very interesting that mistral/codellama gets the structure correct, but generates code that does not compile. I wonder if FORTRAN/MATLAB code was used as part of the training dataset. If not it, might be a good use case for fine tuning. I found that openhermes on my 2070 worked well for simple python and Linux commands Recently I came ac…

i usually hit the limit for gpt4 requests on chatgpt pro so I’ll switch to my local llm for simple regex and terminal look ups

[mailman-2097]

ask co-pilot lol…

[progressEdd]

Our work has separate corporate github accounts. Also the binggpt (co-pilot) doesn’t remember your chat history

[fmtech]

I feel like AI tools right now like co-pilot are just best for scaffolding and sometimes it’s just plain wrong. Most of the scaffolding use I’ve been using for was already supported by VScode plugins. I really don’t see the value of it currently. I feel like AI is still very much started in the hype cycle.

Best thing it does (for me currently) is point you in the right direction if you are struggling to find a use of a new design pattern.