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So given that I primarily interact with LLM's through VSCode, and I prefer the Copilot interface to the Claude Code plugin, does anyone have any suggestions on other plugins I should try? In my experience, Copilot is much more "plugged in" than any of the other plugins, in the sense that it can see things like linter outputs in VSCode. Basically, copilot "sees what I see" in a way that no other plugin or command line tool can, which make it much more ergonomic to use.

With this pricing change, I see no reason at all to stick with Copilot in principle, but I really need to solve this issue of IDE integration to move on.

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You can use Copilot Chat* with basically any API provider, and if you switch to the VS Code Insiders build you can configure it to use literally any OpenAI API-compatible endpoint.

Other than that Zed has a similar experience which is pretty decent.

* By which I mean the good one, whatever it's called now - the part of Copilot that used to be a plugin and is now part of VS Code, not the thing that has always been part of VS Code.

Try Cline, a vscode plugin that's been around since the start and has really active development. You can also use most providers as well.

Saw this new Cline fork mentioned in another post: https://github.com/dirac-run/dirac

Also heard of more and more people moving to Kilo Code or OpenChamber instead.

I tried Openchamber. Far too buggy. Cline seems like the best bet.

I used to feel exactly like you do, but now I use the Claude CLI exclusively and am very pleased with the results.

Could you elaborate on what's better about the CLI?

Simply the output of the code written. It initially worried me that it was harder to add context (can't select a single line of code in VS Code and automatically attach it, for example), but I've found that the Claude CLI's output is so far superior that it doesn't even need that VS Code context.

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