What's the difference between Chat and Composer?

Hi!

What’s the difference between Chat and Composer? When should I use Chat instead of Composer, and vice versa?

Hi @pland ,

You may find some useful information in here:

Essentially:

  1. Ctrl + K for in-file code generation and ‘quick questions’
  2. Ctrl + L (Chat) to open up an AI chat panel in the sidebar
  3. Ctrl + I (Composer) to create and edit code across multiple files

Composer is the newer feature with arguably more ‘pizazz’, and exciting new features being added quite regularly, but that does mean it has a higher incidence of bugs.

Personally, I use Ctrl + K and Ctrl L the most at the moment, but I also have a special place in my heart for Composer, as it is arguably the most ambitious and innovative feature, and test it every now and then to see the new features and how it is progressing.

Basically they are all cool for their use cases.

Remember you can highlight text before launching these interfaces to add the highlighted text to the context.

Here’s a post that shows some of the newer Composer views:

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Awesome! Thanks!

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