alt Hacker NewsSlightly related (me not understanding) is why the Copilot in VS code is essentially just CLI interface. Why can't it use the IDE tools (search, LSP, ...). All it ever does is trying to execute grep.
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Someone mentioned here the other day that when you try and give Claude those tools throughan MCP or skill it tends to go a bit loopy.
At the moment it seems like the way it's been trained has been tightly coupled with grep.
It does feel bizarre though that it doesn't use the symbol servers.
Because it’s far far easier to make a text-generation machine generate text that has decades of how-to explanations on the Internet than to correctly work an internal editor API that changes often and isn’t as well-documented.
Especially if you want effective results.
There is an option to turn on semantic indexing and search on copilot in vscode. Although I have no perceptual differences when I turn it on. The docs mention something about it.
https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/copilot/reference/workspa...