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So the development experience Github is marching towards doesn't compare?

E.g., Codespaces, CoPilot, Actions, etc?

(genuinely curious, not trolling)

It does! Working like Google is like that but having had decades to build that dream, using the resources that only a megacorp could bring to bear in the problem, and in a monorepo. The fact that it's a monorepo is not to be dismissed. git doesn't work for monorepos.

Codespaces is like CitC; I haven't been a Google since the rise of AI so I can't comment on how the internal equivalent to Copilot is; Actions is very primitive compared to what Google has, but yeah, you can see where it's going. it doesn't compare right now but it could, eventually.

The Gemini-powered copilot is fine, but has so far, for me, only done automated like "heres a simple method based on the comment you wrote", or "I patched in a change to the other callsites when you renamed this thing". I have also not used it in 2 months so it's probably better already.

I still mainly do my LLM assisted coding in chat-style interfaces that are more like pair programming by mail.

I think the Gemini code assist is coming out as a consumer product, I forgot the name, because Google is awful at branding.

> git doesn't work for monorepos.

Why not? Is it related to partial checkouts?

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