I’m trying to understand the same. Here’s my guess: if you don’t have the syntax at your finger tips, you might actually be searching google/stackoverflow/etc and then deciding what to type in your editor. This “integration” short circuits your process by letting you do the whole thing in your editor — the query as code comment (it turns out LLM queries look & feel different from search engine queries 🤷♂️) followed by what you might have copy-pasted before editing/adapting for your purpose.
Maybe that’s why I don’t get it. I don’t have a copy-paste workflow. I have a search-read-type workflow. (Search can be search engine, chatgpt…whatever)
Also it’s not only about LLMs, you can use this process to sort, dedup or make other operations on your text selection with a shell command which is a nice tool to have.
Why do people want to code like this? Sigh.
I’m trying to understand the same. Here’s my guess: if you don’t have the syntax at your finger tips, you might actually be searching google/stackoverflow/etc and then deciding what to type in your editor. This “integration” short circuits your process by letting you do the whole thing in your editor — the query as code comment (it turns out LLM queries look & feel different from search engine queries 🤷♂️) followed by what you might have copy-pasted before editing/adapting for your purpose.
Maybe that’s why I don’t get it. I don’t have a copy-paste workflow. I have a search-read-type workflow. (Search can be search engine, chatgpt…whatever)
The example comes from a demo of the Replit AI assistant that does something similar but through autocomplete (https://replit.com/public/images/ghostwriter/demos/creativity/css_complete.mp4). I tried to see if we could have something similar and other helpers.
Also it’s not only about LLMs, you can use this process to sort, dedup or make other operations on your text selection with a shell command which is a nice tool to have.