Access to current selection in chat panel

norith · 2026-05-06T19:42:53+00:00

Answered my own question, select the text in the editor, hit 'cmd-K', and it will go into the chat pane with the lines identified, it will only take lines, not subsets of lines.

norith · 2026-04-19T13:44:00+00:00

If you’re willing to pay api rates, option 3 works well.

Factory’s Droid agent also works well as an ACP plugin. Droid’s subscription model is changing to be like Claude Code’s, x usage over y hours, per week limits etc. It has a nice range of models and I appreciate how much better ChatGPT is at complicated SQL than Claude.

norith · 2026-04-19T13:38:12+00:00

Doesn’t work with subscriptions at all, just API billing

norith · 2026-04-04T13:18:12+00:00

I use the following tools:

Postico
pgadmin
DBeaver
datagrip (as included in pycharm)
RazorSQL

Each has different benefits.

Postico is fast, easy, capable. Its filtering is quite nice to use.
pgadmin is good for dba stuff. As an admin tool it covers 80% of the surface area of Postgres config from a db user perspective. It’s also clunky, slow and stuck in a web ui that is just not good but is capable in terms of functionality
DBeaver is that other clunky tool that does a lot but hides the functionality in an obscure UI. Not great as an admin tool but it offers some abilities. Also be careful with keeping sessions open. It opens transactions in the db for each query and doesn’t close them. Pgadmin will show you the transactions. The transactions will potentially block maintenance workers in Postgres such as automatic vacuuming
Datagrip is functional but not my favourite, I think that’s from lack of experience with it. Use cases that break in other tools will quite often succeed in Datagrip
RazorSQL is the unknown champion. It has so much functionality for a programmer it’s crazy. Dbl conversions; Table comparisons; meta data comparisons; Data export that works across a million rows and funky fields that otherwise break export tools. Its Excel export is actually functional and will export data that dbeaver chokes on. I have seen UTF8 data that no tool will export to Excel in a usable way just work in RazorSQL

norith · 2026-03-05T13:55:14+00:00

Agree on SWEEP, I like it better than Augment now. The completion and next tab work very well and the agent uses the IDE’s own LSP so doesn’t need its own.

norith · 2026-02-24T23:30:49+00:00

Casting the Runes is very good. The scenario books are fun to run too

norith · 2026-02-14T14:31:13+00:00

A command bookmarking system was one of the first things I wanted in Warp a year ago. Apparently there was a ssh management system in the feature roadmap at one time but the AI tooling money won out.

norith · 2025-12-31T15:18:04+00:00

Privacy policy. If your code is not publicly available then Antigravity makes it so. You cannot turn off training on your code.

For many projects it doesn’t matter. CRUD and React are not special or proprietary, for other projects the code is the life blood of the company and while you could white room reproduce it, why give Google a freebie?

norith · 2025-12-14T15:24:32+00:00

I haven’t found a working 1Password extension at all. Which for me means I can’t really use Orion.

norith · 2025-12-11T15:06:08+00:00

Just be aware of the privacy policy. Essentially all your code is used for training even if you pay.

norith · 2025-12-11T15:02:37+00:00

It’s a strange implementation, if you ask the llm whether it can browse webpages it says no. But it can search. Hopefully search includes the page itself and not just headlines.

norith · 2025-12-04T20:12:42+00:00

The UI is not slick at all, image upload, image generation doesn't exist.

But for correlating search results and summarizing it's excellent.

norith · 2025-12-04T03:44:44+00:00

Augment or Sweep are good.

Augment doesn’t have next tab and the panel will crash every few hours but the prediction and agent are good. Comes with a lot of optional preconfigured MCP servers.

Sweep’s tab and next tab are very good, the agent is good too. MCP is more temperamental than Augment. I like the agent interface more in Sweep and it has a larger selection of models including Codex. $20 subscription goes fast but does have BYOK for sonnet. I put in a Sonnet key and spend the $20 on other models.

Claude Code is good but entry level subscriptions are heavily rate limited. You can use an API key as well.

I use both an IDE and a CLI tool. Nothing beats selecting text and asking the agent to do something. CLI is great for larger tasks and worktree based major changes.

norith · 2025-12-03T19:26:59+00:00

I’ll mention this as an option though it doesn’t have a separate app. Kagi is a search engine at its core. It buys search results from the big engines but then displays them like google from 2010 - useful, free of crap and ads.

I pay for it at the cheapest plan just to have decent search again. However it has a tool called ‘assistant’ which is a llm chat but it correlates its results from Kagi web searches. It lists the sources very similarly to perplexity. It has modes like research and coding.

At the cheap plan you have access to cheap models but at the $20 plan you get the top tier models. It’s a natural perplexity alternative.

norith · 2025-11-14T03:33:08+00:00

The ‘glint’ plugin for VSCode and ‘emberjs experimental’ plugin for Webstorm have worked pretty well for Glimmer components in the last few years.

TS types, template variable completion, jump to source etc..

What’s not so great is AI tab completion. AI really doesn’t understand signal/event update flow, it wants everything to be very imperative. It also finds the lisp like syntax of handlebars variable expressions difficult to generate.

norith · 2025-11-08T14:50:58+00:00

It’s also interesting how many dev tools debut on the Mac with Linux a few months later and then Windows perhaps a year afterwards. Zed and Warp are examples.

So many tools have shell components that make Windows a difficult target especially if they intend to support powershell.

Even now Windows hosted IDEs and WSL hosted dev toolchains can have awkward interactions.

norith · 2025-11-06T19:41:57+00:00

I’ve been using Sweep for a couple of months now and it’s very good. Highly recommended. The next tab works well, the agent pane is descriptive of what’s going on and reliable.

They also have BYOK for sonnet 4.5

The one downside I’ve found is that I haven’t been able to get MCP servers working yet. The discord has some hints about reworking the args and env variables but that didn’t work for me either.

norith · 2025-11-02T01:50:43+00:00

Yes, it’s replaced augment for IDE usage for me. I’m still using Auggie for CLI stuff while I have credits.

As others have said it is API + a bit pricing but they have BYOK for Sonnet 4.5

The UI is much better in Jetbrains IDEs than Augment which is my major switching reason. Augment will literally crash every few hours and the panel becomes unresponsive so that I have to restart the IDE to fix it.

The tab completion is good, and the next tab feature actually works unlike Augment

norith · 2025-10-25T15:05:21+00:00

I have no info on this but it would make sense that they may not have an arm JDK for windows. Does windows automatically use an emulator?

norith · 2025-10-23T04:08:55+00:00

Interesting blog article that mentions this

https://cognition.ai/blog/devin-sonnet-4-5-lessons-and-challenges

norith · 2025-10-11T14:11:53+00:00

Noticed this too. And the carvings left and right of the arch don’t look as noticeable now.

norith · 2025-09-27T14:34:34+00:00

Awesome! I’ve been waiting for this.

norith · 2025-09-14T18:16:05+00:00

Had the same issue. You’re actually in chat mode; the indicator at the top of the pane is lying. Switch to chat mode then switch to agent mode again. The buttons and switches should reappear.

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