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[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 380 points 2 months ago (26 children)

CEOs, embrace torches and pitchforks.

Copilot is shit.

[–] takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Copilot is shit.

Exactly, my company provides license for copilot and I use it, and while it has some highlights most of the time it actually is more a nuisance than help.

It especially annoys me because it hijacks autocomplete based on types with is own that frequently has subtle bugs, so now if I have it enabled I need to be on guard all the time. With the traditional autocomplete I could just trust it to be correct.

[–] Buckshot@programming.dev 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is my experience. It saves a bit of typing sometimes but that's probably cancelled out by the time spent correcting it, rewriting nonsense it produced, and reviewing my corworkers PRs that didn't notice the nonsense.

[–] Blooper@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 2 months ago

Here's where I'll give it credit:

  1. It can spit out a beautiful readme.md file
  2. It will insert comments to explain the more nuanced aspects of my code for those viewing it for the first time

Doesn't make up for the annoying-ass auto complete hijacking though. Stupid thing keeps making up non-existent functions and api's and inserting them all over the place.

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