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No worries! Sorry, I was thinking of Cursor, not Codex. It essentially opens a side panel inside VS Code from which you can interact with your LLM. I haven't tried it myself, but I have tried Gemini Code Assist and Claude Code.
They'll modify the code for you. Some people are riskier than me and will let them go wild. I, on the other hand make them write a development plan beforehand and I review it. If everything looks good, then I'll give the go-ahead.
But I digress. I wouldn't mind manually applying the changes and copy/paste back and forth. That's how I did it previously anyway.
And I get it. I also have decades coding (since the 80s!), and I resisted for many months the idea of using AI to assist me with something that I enjoy doing most of the time.
Oh! Ok, that makes more sense, yes, I've poked around with Cursor... at least once, at some point?
But yeah, I'll also very often ask the LLM to... draw up some kind of plan, before it makes some larger scale modification, or if we're trying to add something that would have to span across multiple scripts, etc.
You've also been coding longer than I have, hah!
I wasn't even alive for most of the 80s... but I do remember having to actually remember phone numbers, hahaha!
They used to have cords! You were fancy if you could take a phone from the kitchen to the couch, whoah, cordless!
But anyway, yeah I wouldn't have even considered trying this if it would have wound but being totally reliant on an internet connection, someone else's computer doing the actual work.
That, quite literally, is how they getcha.