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This is just the initial impression and it sure does blow you away. Thats because you are starting with something simple to test it out. As you try to use it o
by sharmi 4y ago
This is just the initial impression and it sure does blow you away.
Thats because you are starting with something simple to test it out. As you try to use it on bigger systems, the usefulness goes down.
In fact, it is barely useful when coding in a framework like Django.
OTOH, it is quite useful for repetitive tasks like writing a downloader function or an sql script.
When using external libraries though, the inventiveness of CoPilot can get really tricky, cause it can generate lines of code for the library API that sounds legit but is completely unrelated to the actual API. CoPilot also often adds such innocuous but wrong lines of code when autogenerating multiple lines. So it is always good to take CoPilot code with a huge grain of salt.
Overall though, it is quite useful for one off scripts. So I just treat it like an enthusiastic but highly unreliable assistant.