I keep CoPilot-based autocomplete turned on everywhere and occasionally use the inline chat with Claude Sonnet 4 but honestly for a lot of stuff I'm still stuck on copy/pasting from ChatGPT o4-mini-high. I've found I can get the best responses when I fully control the context and inputs independent from my workspace.
I use Cursor and GitHub Copilot as “fancy auto complete”. On rare occasions I use their chat agent but I run into context limits and I generally don’t like LLMs going in and modifying code I’ve already written.
I also use Claude to ask general code questions, to explain something, give me ideas or code examples.
I've been trying blackbox.ai in VSCode the last little while. In my very limited experience it either gets it close to right on the first few tries or gets stuck in a kind of testing loop, making more an ornate tests that still miss one critical bug.
It's the first sort of "magic wand" coding AI I've used, where in the past I just would ask questions of ChatGPT or Gemini.
I also use Claude to ask general code questions, to explain something, give me ideas or code examples.
I am comfortably behind the state of the art.
It's the first sort of "magic wand" coding AI I've used, where in the past I just would ask questions of ChatGPT or Gemini.