Instead of adding a TODO or filing a ticket to find again later agent mode/background tasks/agents let you just spin off the actual work for doing the task. So you can keep your focus on the main thing you are working on but have something else go fix the bug you noticed, write the missing test, or even just fix a spelling mistake in a comment. It improves code quality by lowering effort required to prepare a change and work through lint/CI etc. In this way it’s great even though it can’t handle much complexity yet.
ComplexSystems · 10m ago
I have been using this with mostly decent results. I am curious how it compares to other IDEs though - Cursor, Windsurf, Roocode, etc. Any thoughts?
CharlesW · 2m ago
I personally like Windsurf a bit more than Cursor, but recently I've been far more productive using Claude Code with an IDE than I was using a VSC-derived AIDE.
bionhoward · 20m ago
Who can take em seriously when cursor has privacy mode while copilot implicitly trains AI on copilot interactions with customers’ private repo code unless you get some enterprise tier of service?
The core of GitHub is about version control, including private repos, the fact they would violate that trust relationship just to chase AI capabilities means they’ve totally lost the plot as far as I’m concerned.
Maybe Copilot is a nice toy for open source projects or noobs working on private codebases who don’t take 5 minutes to read their website, but cursor just seems way ahead in terms of basic respect for customers
The core of GitHub is about version control, including private repos, the fact they would violate that trust relationship just to chase AI capabilities means they’ve totally lost the plot as far as I’m concerned.
Maybe Copilot is a nice toy for open source projects or noobs working on private codebases who don’t take 5 minutes to read their website, but cursor just seems way ahead in terms of basic respect for customers