I've found Copilot to be much better than GPT-4. GPT seems really smart and you can give it very high-level prompts, which generate good quality code. But it's

I've found Copilot to be much better than GPT-4. GPT seems really smart and you can give it very high-level prompts, which generate good quality code. But it's limited by the chat interface, and if it doesn't get it right the first time, it's tricky to get a tweaked version. For example, I asked it to generate some code for a login endpoint, and gave it all the details about language, libraries, database etc. It produced some pretty good code. But then I asked it to do a version didn't store passwords in plaintext. It did that, but also made other changes including using a different library than one I had specified. So then I had to try to fix that, which led to more weirdness. I ended up just using the code it generated as inspiration and writing it myself. Copilot, with its integration into VSCode is quite different. It's *awesome*. It makes suggestions in inline, as you type. It seems to have a lot of context, and generates very good code, apparently based on information contained in other files in the same project. It matches style and naming conventions, and even when it's not quite right, I find it easy to just accept the suggestion, and tweak it. It's a huge help. So my current practice is to rely on Copilot to generate code and use GPT as sort of a pairing partner that I can talk to about the code. It's pretty good at suggesting alternatives, developing ideas, explaining error messages and so on. This is a very, very early attempt at coding with the help of AI, and I haven't actually seen a productivity improvement, because I don't know how to use these tools well. But it's fun and exciting!