Ask HN: Do you find Copilot useful?

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by thiht • 3 years ago

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I finally installed Copilot to see what the fluff was about, and I have to say I’m pretty disappointed so far. The suggestions are either completely nonsensical, or mostly correct but it takes me more time to review the generated code than to write it myself. Does it get better or is this the expected experience?

giorgosnty• 3 years ago

It does get better the more you are writing but it is not magic for sure. It's mostly helpful in proposing things you have already written again or similar, like repositories, controllers etc and even tests and data. It saves me time but it needs approvements to have us excited.

Note: try commenting what you would like it to do if it is kind of standard.

codeptualize• 3 years ago

I find it kinda annoying. It's like a slow inaccurate autocomplete that doesn't always work.

I'm kinda puzzled why people are so excited about it, and honestly wondering if there is something wrong in my setup, or if I'm using it wrong. I have been using it for a couple of weeks now, but no improvement, and also tried quite a few strategies.

It's "ok-ish" with boilerplate-y stuff, but it's not reliable. Same as you mention; I'm quicker writing code with normal TS autocomplete than having to fix the sometimes subtle bugs it writes.

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