alt Hacker NewsI'm using VSCode with Github Copilot (Business) in Agent, and Ask mode with varying LLMs, depending on the complexity of the task. For a specific task, i create a markdown file with the requirements in tandem with the Agent, manually edit it where convenient. And then i let the Agent implement one feature or work unit after another, while micro managing it and making sure that i understand what it has written (not for really trivial stuff, where i don't care). This gives me a huge productivity boost, while the level of being in the loop is still bearable for me.
TBH, i'm wondering why i'm the only one saying he's using VSCode with GH Copilot. Isn't this the most frictionless tooling for an 'agentic engineer'? I get state-of-the-art LLMs while it's fully integrated into my IDE.
I still don't fully get what Claude Code or GH Copilot CLI would bring beyond that, since the Copilot plugin does also have CLI access.
You aren't the only one. There are many people using Github Copilot.
Github Copilot CLI is for automation. For example, in a Rust project, I use it to audit for security, documentation gaps, and test issues crate by crate. This can take an hour and I look at the suggested stories it writes afterwards to triage for implementation.