AI code generator integrations

[smartin]

Hi.
I have tested some AI code generators in Visual Studio Code, namely copilot, IntelliCode, TabNine, and CodeWhisperer. They are actually quite good at some of the donkey work involved in programming.
Any chance of an integration for SlickEdit? If you want somewhere to start, my personal favourite is copilot.
Thanks.

[garion911]

I too would like this... I think mixed w/ Code Annotations, it could be a really useful feature.

[mschifterForum]

+1 on this. I'm using co-pilot for unreal engine development inside the visual studio Professional IDE. It's too much a time saver to not use it.

[TKasparek]

I would add Codeium to this list but I would be interested in support of any of them.

[richmaes]

I'd like to see this feature supported in some fashion. I can't speak to which integration is preferred, but my company just started some rollout training with Gitlab DUO and think there something happening with Copilot already. 

[adsouza]

I'd like to see github copilot integration with slickedit asap. Just got an enterprise license for copilot and I'd be forced to go to visual studio code if I want to use it.

[Graeme]

You could have vscode running side by side with slickedit and write a slick macro to switch to vscode passing the current file, line number and column

code.exe --goto _mdi.p_child.p_buf_name : _mdi.p_child.p_line : _mdi.p_child.p_col

[RaffoPazzo]

I have been a happy and proud SlickEdit user for more than decade. Recently I have been trying out one of the modern editors, specifically Zed (but I gather that Cursor is somewhat similar) and the AI integration is mind-blowing combined with their default AI Model (Claude Sonnet 4) it really is a game changer for coding. From what I understand this is "just" a matter of integrating via the open MCP protocol and allow the user to provide their own API keys for the AI Model. When you remove the AI integration, SlickEdit is by far more advanced, faster and richer in functionality. So if SlickEdit added AI integration it would continue to stay ahead of the pack. Are there any plans?

[garion911]

I suspect that I've owned SE in one form or another for 20 years. I'm getting more and more pressure to switch away. I'm going to miss my Brief bindings, but I'll adjust eventually to something new. I've come to conclusion that some form of AI plugin isn't available soon (in the next year?) I'll probably have to retire SE.

[RaffoPazzo]

Whilst I don't want to insinuate that AI integration is easy, I do think that it's not rocket science either. It's very much achievable within one year. There are tutorials on the internet for super basic AI Editor workflows and take less than 500 lines of python. Again not to imply that it's an easy task. Especially because the deal breaker here is 100% around UX, after all it's the LLM that is in control of the responses that you get to your prompts and they are the same regardless of which editor you use. It's truly a race to the best UX and seamless integration with the rest of the tools.

[Graeme]

Gemini 2.5 pro is great for coding - I think it's available for free with usage limits.  You can attach a github repo to a chat and gemini will import it for that chat.  I find "AI auto completion" more annoying than helpful so I have it turned off.