I too was pretty skeptical of Copilot when I started using it last summer. However it is shockingly good for filling out Python snippets - ie smarter autocompl

I too was pretty skeptical of Copilot when I started using it last summer. However it is shockingly good for filling out Python snippets - ie smarter autocomplete when teaching. Popular libraries like Pandas, Beautiful Soup, Flask are perfect for this. About 80% time it will fill out the code exactly they way I would want. About 10% time it will be something you want to correct or nudge. Then about 10% of time it will be a howler or anti-pattern. Then you simply explain it to students why it is not so great to say insert something at a beginning of a Python list. Edit: Copilot is also great for filling out comments when teaching # it can generate Captain Obvious what comments and also some nice why type comments as well