VSCode is a firm nope for me - the Microsoft way, where things that out to be grouped together are scattered all over hell, just to make it hard to shift to a new platform. I went back to PyCharm and immediately got my productivity back. I think part of the trouble here was picking an intermediate to advanced problem right at the start. It's responding to manual methods today, a week after I first posted this, working on a new article about the progress right now, just happened to need to reference this and noticed your comment.
The UI is interesting because you can add context and choose or auto select a model, and there are ask and agent modes. Gemini even gives a thread explaining its ‘train of thought’ or at least what it considers in formulating a response, although I like Claude better from some tasks. You can even ask non coding questions and probably get recipes for dinner, although I haven’t tried that yet. Foreign languages, probably no problem. Computer languages are arguably languages.
Have you tried cursor.com with the VSCode plug in ?
VSCode is a firm nope for me - the Microsoft way, where things that out to be grouped together are scattered all over hell, just to make it hard to shift to a new platform. I went back to PyCharm and immediately got my productivity back. I think part of the trouble here was picking an intermediate to advanced problem right at the start. It's responding to manual methods today, a week after I first posted this, working on a new article about the progress right now, just happened to need to reference this and noticed your comment.
The UI is interesting because you can add context and choose or auto select a model, and there are ask and agent modes. Gemini even gives a thread explaining its ‘train of thought’ or at least what it considers in formulating a response, although I like Claude better from some tasks. You can even ask non coding questions and probably get recipes for dinner, although I haven’t tried that yet. Foreign languages, probably no problem. Computer languages are arguably languages.