I used it a couple of times to write code alongside a dev when I was working with a client who had their own dev team. It never worked well for us, mostly because I use the vim extension and it seemed absolutely incapable of translating typical vim usage to "normal" actions. Trying to write just a couple lines of code would lock the IDE for both of us, or shift things around at the bottom (like the "editing a word document" meme) and leave incomplete changes in weird places (aka sneaky compiler errors).
This was more than a year ago, so they hopefully had fixed it by now, but we gave up after a few sessions.
> Code With Me was a tool designed for real-time pair programming and remote collaboration
It regrettably makes sense: Nowadays a lot of people are instead asking an LLM chatbot to "collaborate." It may be inferior to a coworker--perhaps dangerously subtly so--but you can invoke it at any time which is convenient.
I used it a couple of times to write code alongside a dev when I was working with a client who had their own dev team. It never worked well for us, mostly because I use the vim extension and it seemed absolutely incapable of translating typical vim usage to "normal" actions. Trying to write just a couple lines of code would lock the IDE for both of us, or shift things around at the bottom (like the "editing a word document" meme) and leave incomplete changes in weird places (aka sneaky compiler errors).
This was more than a year ago, so they hopefully had fixed it by now, but we gave up after a few sessions.
> Code With Me was a tool designed for real-time pair programming and remote collaboration
It regrettably makes sense: Nowadays a lot of people are instead asking an LLM chatbot to "collaborate." It may be inferior to a coworker--perhaps dangerously subtly so--but you can invoke it at any time which is convenient.
This is a shame - while I never used it, it always looked like the way I would have wanted to remotely collaborate.