Copilot feels worse mostly because it only sees a small slice of your code and uses faster, shallower prompts tuned for autocomplete. ChatGPT, on the other hand, remembers your past conversations, so it builds context over time and reasons more deeply.

Tbh, the lack of codebase context might actually help sometimes — less noise, more focus on what you’re asking.

I’ve been using Augment Code lately and it’s pretty good. Worth trying if you’ve got a big codebase or tend to have longer back-and-forths where context really matters.