ClickUp Brain Visual Studio Extension
Liam
Currently, we require a separate GitHub Copilot subscription for AI inside of Visual Studios. We've become really accustom to Brain and it would be helpful if Brain could be used inside of Visual Studios somehow, with it having all of the context of our planning and documenting tool.
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Liam
Ivan Villa, wouldn't letting BrainGPT (desktop version) have access to the solution folder (locally) accomplish this? Sure, it wouldn't function as a feature-rich development focused tool like Codegen, but it would provide context aware AI of the entire project's code similarly to that of it.
Ivan Villa
Hey Liam, is the goal to have Brain do the coding work for you or just to answer product and project questions from your tasks?
Liam
Hey Ivan Villa, because of acquisitions I'm now overseeing projects in programming languages I'm unfamiliar with. (It doesn't stop me, but it does slow me down) GitHub Copilot has been incredibly helpful in breaking down solutions and explaining how some really unfactored code works, in plain English, so I can understand it. If Brain was doing that instead, with its access to our Workspace, it could make documentation feel more like a real-time conversation.
So the goal isn't really "do the coding work," but instead "translate code into plain English having full context, of all, of the project's source code," and "assist with documentation."
Liam
Ivan Villa, and a bonus high-level food-for-thought, [Brain + Whiteboard] at the level of the source code, could give rise to some really awesome diagramming features. Talk about 10x!
Ivan Villa
Liam Thanks for the context! We actually do this ourselves with one of our acquisitions, Codegen.
The way it works is Codegen is plugged into all our repos. If I’m working on a task and have questions, I just tag "codegen" and the agent investigates and gets back to me with answers.
We want to make this feel more seamless as a native part of Brain, but for now, we use this integration.
Liam
Ivan Villa, I did notice the integration for it when it came out, but I completely missed that ClickUp acquired Codegen.
The only reason I haven't used it is because, ever since ClickUp aimed to converged AI subscriptions in one place, I haven't really been keen on purchasing others. If access came with my ClickUp subscription, I probably would be using it.