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[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (11 children)

Tbh, copilot was probably the worst AI coding experience I've had. It actually made me less productive and made me question my competency as a programmer at the same time. Straight up did not have a good time. Use Cody or GPT-4 instead.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago (7 children)

It is designed for other purposes than GPT models. Next time try to use copilot as autocompletion, not to generate new code. It's excellent in that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

That's how I was using it; I ended up spending as much time as I was saving going around and cleaning up after it and/or second guessing myself. Basically, because it only operates in the context of the file you're working in, it will suggest garbage half the time if you have to work with resources from other files.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

If you have those other files open, it also picks those up. And lately it seems to follow imports too, I feel like

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