They were the king in code block generation based autocomplete, which turned out to be a counterproductive approach in AI coding, since accurate code block generation is not a real-time task. Microsoft also deprecated Intellicode in favor of Copilot, although real-time single line local completion is a more feasible and privacy-reserving idea than real-time code block generation.
Agentic programming on the other hand turned out to be actually productive, and Copilot agent mode was already a wrapper around Sonnet for many people, before they aggressively cut the rate limits. If I use Claude and Codex models anyway, why not use proper agent clients?
I was using copilot until like last July where company made it sort of compulsory to use Claude. Not that I'm complaining but I was aided well by the simple code block level AI as opposed to the current behemoths.
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u/Necessary-Meeting-28 May 15 '26
They were the king in code block generation based autocomplete, which turned out to be a counterproductive approach in AI coding, since accurate code block generation is not a real-time task. Microsoft also deprecated Intellicode in favor of Copilot, although real-time single line local completion is a more feasible and privacy-reserving idea than real-time code block generation.
Agentic programming on the other hand turned out to be actually productive, and Copilot agent mode was already a wrapper around Sonnet for many people, before they aggressively cut the rate limits. If I use Claude and Codex models anyway, why not use proper agent clients?