Biggles

Biggles is a VS Code extension that turns spoken or typed instructions into code edits at the cursor, using Whisper for transcription and ChatGPT for generation with your own OpenAI API key. It handles two operations only: inserting new code or rewriting a selected block.

Biggles is a VS Code extension that lets developers edit and write code by speaking or typing a short instruction. The tool is deliberately minimal: you place your cursor or select a block of code, state what you want, and Biggles produces the change in place. There is no separate chat panel to manage, and the interaction happens inside the editor where the code already lives. Speech input is the headline feature. Pressing CMD+M or CTRL+M starts the microphone, and Biggles sends the recorded audio to OpenAI Whisper for transcription before passing the request to ChatGPT. Developers who would rather not talk to their machine can use CMD+ALT+M or CTRL+ALT+M to type the same kind of instruction. The extension behaves differently depending on selection state: with nothing highlighted it inserts fresh code at the cursor, and with a block highlighted it rewrites that block according to your request. A small amount of surrounding code is sent along with the instruction to give the model context, and the token budget for that context is adjustable in the settings. The tool suits developers who already pay for OpenAI access and want a lightweight, keyboard-driven layer over the API rather than a subscription product with its own billing. It is most useful for quick, local edits: writing a small function, adjusting a conditional, converting a snippet. Because it only sees code near the cursor, it is a poor fit for tasks that require reasoning across a whole repository, such as refactors that move logic between files. Compared with fuller coding assistants, Biggles trades breadth for simplicity. There is no agent loop, no multi-file planning and no repository indexing, only two operations: insert or modify. That constraint keeps the extension predictable and easy to reason about, but anyone expecting whole-project awareness will find it limited. Configuration is essentially an API key plus context settings, so setup is fast and the cost is whatever your OpenAI usage comes to.