Have you tried Cursor? It’s the process you describe, minus the manual work of copy/pasting.
You can just select a block of code, and tell it to (e.g.) “make this function work as a decorator with graceful exception handling” and it will modify your selected code and provide you with a nice diff to apply in one keypress.
Or you can chat with the LLM directly in VS Code, with every snippet easily applied with a click. It can even catalog your codebase in a vector DB for really easy RAG:
“Create a view that allows premium users to view their billing history”
“Okay, I’ve found a function called get_premium_status in auth/user_profile.py. I’ll use that to create api/user/billing_history.py”
(Which then shows the code it will add or change, separated by file, with the option to apply the change)
Interesting you mention this. I actually first started with cursor (ok copy pasta from gpt4 doesn't count). It blew my mind away (may it felt this way due to co mparison with gpt). The cmd-k was awesome.
Then when I tried plain Claude the delta felt way way too small for me. The eng in me kicked in and I started hacking away on continue.dev + claude3 and the delta was very very little. Plus I could bring in more functionality with extra visibility in my own hacks the way I wanted it (macros) which I couldn't with cursor.
You can just select a block of code, and tell it to (e.g.) “make this function work as a decorator with graceful exception handling” and it will modify your selected code and provide you with a nice diff to apply in one keypress.
Or you can chat with the LLM directly in VS Code, with every snippet easily applied with a click. It can even catalog your codebase in a vector DB for really easy RAG:
“Create a view that allows premium users to view their billing history”
“Okay, I’ve found a function called get_premium_status in auth/user_profile.py. I’ll use that to create api/user/billing_history.py”
(Which then shows the code it will add or change, separated by file, with the option to apply the change)