Seconding Cursor. I have a friend who used Copilot 6 mo. ago and found it vaguely helpful... but turned him on to Cursor and it's a whole new ballgame.

Cross between actually useful autocomplete, personalized StackOverflow and error diagnosis (just paste and error message in chat). I know I am just scratching the usefulness and I pretty much never do changes across multiple files, but I definitely see firm net positives at this point.

Unfortunately I “think different” and use Windows. I use Microsoft Copilot and would say it is qualitatively similar to codeium in quality, a real quantitative eval would be a lot of work.

Cursor (cursor.com) is just a vscode wrapper, should work fine with Windows. If you're already in the AI coding space I seriously urge you to at least give it a go.

I'll look into it.

I'll add that my experience with the Codium plugin for IntelliJ is night and day different from the Windsurf editor from Codium.

The first one "just doesn't work" and struggles to see files that are in my project, the second basically works.

You can also look into https://www.greptile.com/ to ask codebase questions. There's so many AI coding tools out there now. I've heard good things about https://codebuddy.ca/ as well (for IntelliJ) and https://www.continue.dev/ (also for IntelliJ).

>The first one "just doesn't work"

Haha. You're on a roll.