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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.
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.
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.
If you have those other files open, it also picks those up. And lately it seems to follow imports too, I feel like
From the docs:
Tho, I don't know if it allways been that way, maybe they added bigger context later
But the propaganda from GitHub said it was making devs 80%+/- more productive!
How could this have happened? /s
it works well for me, mostly accurately guesses what I am trying to do, helps a ton with boilerplate code
It was 55% for me. Higher baseline I suppose. <\s>