Spellbound: Autonomous and goal-seeking coding agents in VS Code

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How does this compare to GitHub Copilot? I don't see that anywhere.

Also it uses GPT4 by default. Seems like that could get expensive depending on how frequently it calls the API. And how much context (tokens) it sends for each prompt.

Yeah, it can get somewhat expensive (e.g. $10 in a day) with very frequent use. I find it much more helpful than Github Copilot, as it performs actions 'autonomously', i.e. it can identify which files to modify to solve a task, etc.

$10 a day is likely far too high for a hobbyist or open source developer.

However for a professional developer $10 a day for something that's much more helpful than Copilot could be just a rounding error. Especially if that "much more helpful" translates to a significant productivity boost over and above Copilot.

Big companies aren't likely to go for something like this because of IP and confidentiality concerns. But for a solo or indie developer I could possibly see it.

Does it perform a lot worse with GPT 3.5? That could drop cost hugely if it's close to as good.

Also it remains to be seen how GitHub Copilot X will perform, whenever they release it.

End of the day, it's a reall cool experiment. Thanks for sharing!

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