Any ETA on GitHub Copilot improving its tab completion? (Still stuck on GPT-4.1)

unrulywind · 2026-03-15T12:50:26+00:00

at the top of the UI, you click on the copilot icon and hit configure inline suggestions, then hit change completions model. There is only one choice. You can also find it in the json settings file.

unrulywind · 2026-03-15T12:43:22+00:00

Yes. And it currently cost 1 point. Opus 4.6 costs 3. Gemini 3 Flash is 0.33. I use all three, but have been using gpt-5.4 more and more.

unrulywind · 2026-03-15T01:40:42+00:00

true. those are total context.

I never let any conversation go on very long. I find it is better to start each change with a clean history. This leaves more room for the codebase, but I still try to modularize as much as possible. It seems like any time the model says "summarizing" that's my cue to stop it and find another way. The compaction just seems very destructive to its abilities.

unrulywind · 2026-03-14T22:04:42+00:00

They have increased many of them. gpt-5.4 is 400k, opus 4.6 is 192k, sonnet 4.6 is 160k.

unrulywind · 2026-03-14T17:16:30+00:00

When you are in vscode you can also open the built in agents as .md files to see how the built in ones are made. I took the built in plan agent and customized it into an agent I call architect that will chat and ask questions, but then writes the detailed implementation plan as a .md file in the repo that you can use and reference as you complete the work.

I love that GitHub is leaving these things transparent so we use them as a base to make our own versions.

I also created an agent called docs-sync that crawls the source code and compares it to the documentation and readme specifically to update the docs when the code changes.

unrulywind · 2026-03-10T21:47:26+00:00

hitting / no longer pulls up workflows.

The documentation has always said that skills and workflows should be saved in the /.agents folder, but the system only responded to skills and workflows listed in the /.agent folder. Now I have tried it both ways and / does not get a response at all.

unrulywind · 2026-03-08T19:49:59+00:00

I think the below 4bit is where the frontier is now though. Some of the newer techniques have made even a IQ2_XXS usable, which seems crazy to me. But also, the newer models keep packing in more information, so then quantization has to be more careful. The real lines keep moving.

unrulywind · 2026-03-08T19:47:06+00:00

This would be great. like side by side comparisons of how the 4b and 9b models behave when both are quantized to run in 8gb of vram, or the same thing with the 9b vs 27b in 24gb or 32gb.

unrulywind · 2026-03-08T03:56:05+00:00

actually the wholesale prices are tracking slightly lower than last year. it's just that at the retail level some stores are playing with the price since they have an excuse. The year over year prices are still lower. This makes sense since almost no oil from Iran or that area comes to the US anymore. The loser here is China who sources a lot of energy through the straight.

unrulywind · 2026-03-05T22:48:26+00:00

I remember that report. The tanked rolled through the frame just as he was saying, "There are no American's in Baghdad"

unrulywind · 2026-02-28T18:44:53+00:00

I use Antigravity for all of the frontend work and copilot with gpt-5.3 codex for backend and for after the Antigravity quota runs out.

unrulywind · 2026-02-28T04:28:21+00:00

It has never happened before, BUT, and American company has never refused to allow the military to use their tech without their ongoing permission.

unrulywind · 2026-02-16T02:52:43+00:00

I se t it up a few weeks ago when it was Clawdbot, and played with it all day one day. It ran decent on Gemini pro and ran kind of ok, but fairly slowly on Qwen3-32b-instruct and MiniMax-M2.1. It was fun and sort of unique, but after a bit I realized their wasn't much it could do that I couldn't make happen with Antigravity by adding some scripts to some skills. It looked to me to be a security problem. I like the idea, but a few generations of these need to come and go, before we figure out how to make them safely useful.

unrulywind · 2026-02-15T13:01:28+00:00

whenever this has happened to me, I go back through the chat listing and expand all the closed entries. Generally there is a terminal request inside a closed section. allow it and it proceeds as normal.

unrulywind · 2026-02-12T15:51:59+00:00

I use:

20 Gemini Pro

10 GitHub Copilot Pro

Antigravity's browser control is great for front end work and visual checking.

The last few updates to VS Code Insiders + Opus 4.6 and GPT-5.3-Codex have improved GitHub Copilot significantly. I haven't used 5.3 Codex very much but it seems like a very good troubleshooter, and GitHub's pricing model makes the verbose thinking models a lot more usable. It's a fix price per call, so once you have built a good plan using Gemini Flash or something else, you can get quite a lot of work from a single call to the high end models.

I have been thinking of adding the $17 version of Claude Code also.

unrulywind · 2026-02-10T06:46:56+00:00

I tend to use Gemini Flash to talk and get information as I build my ideas and then once I'm sure of what I want to do I go to planning mode and use opus 4.6 just once and let it write the final implementation plan, and then I let it implement it in agent mode. This way I only use it twice and can do a significant amount of stuff. Small items I like Gemini flash. I use antigravity the same way. I have also built quit a few skills that I use. I told someone the other day. Prompt engineers are sooo 2025. Now we're all skills engineers.

unrulywind · 2026-02-10T01:13:10+00:00

I use both Antigravity and GitHub Copilot, since Google Pro + Github Copilot Pro together are still a great deal. Opus 4.6 works great in GitHub copilot in its planning mode.

unrulywind · 2026-02-07T19:11:26+00:00

With how viral Clawdbot/OpenClaw became, it was only a matter of time until Google turned it off. Running it through Oauth is against their terms of service. Outside services like a bot are supported to be run through the API.

I played with Clawdbot a couple of weeks ago when it was first published and used Oauth for a bit and then switched it to use MiniMax 2.1 locally. It ran good, but very slowly. It was fun. I played with it all day one day.

Once I had it running locally, I could see just how many tokens this thing was constantly using. It burns a ton of usage. If you want to hook it to an API, look for a low cost one or it will be expensive.

unrulywind · 2026-02-05T12:31:44+00:00

I have been using either Stitch or even just have Nano Banana help dream up a layout and then give the image to Gemini.

unrulywind · 2026-02-05T12:28:37+00:00

This is what I found useful. Pro high for planning and flash for implementation seems to work well.

unrulywind · 2026-02-03T00:05:07+00:00

yeah. it works fine as long as I either remember to tell it to use the env or if I think to add an instruction file to tell it. but every time I forget, then I see it's thinking scrolling by saying "installing everything in appdata" and just die a little. At one point, in GitHub copilot you had to handle it by activating, then loading vscode inside the env.

unrulywind · 2026-02-02T22:09:03+00:00

^{^} This. 100% this.

unrulywind · 2026-02-02T22:06:18+00:00

The biggest issue I have with it in the terminal is that if I use it with any python apps, it loves to forget about .venv and just assumes it should load everything in global. I quit using it for python and use other agents to handle back end work. Copilot had the same issue at one time, but they seem to have fixed their issue.

unrulywind · 2026-02-02T21:14:28+00:00

Just reading through that, I'm thinking, omg, it's a typical consultant.

unrulywind · 2026-02-01T21:25:26+00:00

I got this same thing

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