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I've been using GitHub Copilot for a week and my experience is that it is indeed incredible sometimes and saves from having to write repeated or boring functions, but more often than not it is not incredible, it is wrong, and the constant stream of wrong suggestions distracts me from what I had in mind and was writing.

Plus it has also tricked me into thinking it had written correct function implementations more than once and led me into wasting time debugging its errors just because I wasn't 100% attentive while checking what it had written for me.
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iefan 🕊️ 2y ago

They are launching copilot X with GPT 4 integrated. It wouldn't be perfect but much better than what we have right now.

I don't mind using advance tools to increase productivity.

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nobody 2y ago

I'm curious how GPT-4 will do. The present copilot, writing C# in Visual Studio 2022, only does well when writing code strictly from the .NET libraries. Anything less popular from nuget actually makes copilot a constant irritation as it just makes methods up that aren't there.

Odd since according to Microsoft, C# is supposed to be Copilot's strong point.

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iefan 🕊️ 2y ago

I mostly use GPT-4 for the boring stuff. It's not the best at writing code, especially for new or complicated projects.

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fiatjaf 2y ago

I can say the same thing about Go. It makes up functions all the time, mixes functions from different libraries (if they are similar in scope) and other crazy things.

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iefan 🕊️ 2y ago

It just makes up stuff a lot, sometimes it's funny tho. 😂😂