I prefer to code in vim. Are there any good companions that don’t require vscode or gui? Something that has a standalone cli would be nice - ThreadSky

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justingarrison.com • 36 days ago

I prefer to code in vim. Are there any good companions that don’t require vscode or gui?

Something that has a standalone cli would be nice

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adegoodyer.com•36 days ago

I've recently gone back to Copilot on both vscode and neovim and can recommend.

Code completion suggestions as well as inline chat in both editor and terminal.

Played with Cursor for a while but if you think the extensions on vscode are becoming bad then that's like the wild west.

adegoodyer.com•36 days ago

It's the choice of LLM per interaction that's more important and you can easily select each time, so that's nice.

ChatGPT and Claude seem to be the leaders atm and both have their strengths.

adegoodyer.com•36 days ago

I'm almost anti-ai assisted programming these days though - good for exploration and prototyping.

Can certainly make you more productive in the short term, but I never feel fully connected to any generated code I write and so it's definitely more error prone and harder to recall months later.