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I've been using it full-time for about two months now. On balance I've found CoPilot useful and plan to keep the paid subscription beyond the trial. But one thi
by jurassic 4y ago
I've been using it full-time for about two months now. On balance I've found CoPilot useful and plan to keep the paid subscription beyond the trial. But one thing I've noticed is that it's easy to get lazy and let it generate variations on stuff for you that really should be refactored out into a reusable class/component/whatever. It's great for rapid prototyping because it can save you a lot of round trips to Stack Overflow or API docs, but it quickly leads you in the direction of way too much duplication. That's not surprising since today it's a write-only generative tool.
I wish the latency were better. I find myself waiting on it sometimes which kinda breaks the magic and flow of using it.
It doesn't happen all the time, but there have definitely been some moments where I'm astounded at what it anticipates & generates. I'm hoping it will do this more often as the tech matures.
- antipotoad 4y agoIt’s not going to be write-only for long: the Copilot Labs version of the VS Code extension introduces brushes, which (by analogy to Photoshop) can be used to retouch your code [1]. Make code more readable, fix bugs, add types, and so on. Exciting times. I’m already regularly blown away by what it generates; the idea that it could similarly ‘read my mind’ with the refactoring In want to do seems just round the corner. [1]: https://githubnext.com/projects/code-brushes https://githubnext.com/projects/code-brushes