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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.

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.

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.

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.

iefan 🕊️ 2y ago

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

Bitmax14 2y ago

GPT4 coming soon for copilot. My experience is that GPT4 is way better than 3.5 when it comes to coding.

WheresAlan 2y ago

I've been using Copilot for some time too. This has been my general experience as well. In fact I've decided that even if AI takes all the coding jobs, I'll still write code and build stuff "by hand" at the very least on my own stuff. Obviously it would be hard to do this in a professional setting where all that matters is efficiency.

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talej 2y ago

It is quite impressive but I ended up turning it off after not too long because it certainly wasn’t saving any time

Woesh 2y ago

Would copilot be a good extra to help learn me code? Say instead of full on GBT? Ihave an idea for an app but can’t code yet.

fiatjaf 2y ago

I've heard that some people are "learning to code" using that, but after my experience I don't think that is a good idea at all. I am unlearning what I knew even.

Gafanh0t0 2y ago

It is as good as the average developer 🤷

Josua Schmid 2y ago

I only use it to branch out when I need creative input.

I think those generative helps are when you don‘t even know what you‘re searching for.