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Copilot is at its best (currently) when you teat it as autocomplete on steroids, it's very good at repetitive tasks, predicting the next line, has a brilliant s

Copilot is at its best (currently) when you teat it as autocomplete on steroids, it's very good at repetitive tasks, predicting the next line, has a brilliant short term memory, and great at prompting "wiring" type tasks. ChatGPT is far better at this sort of "describe what you want and it will code for you" process from TFA. It looks like the next version of Copilot with the chat interface will bring the latter workflow into the system, I'm looking forward to that, a GPT-4 based copilot. My main complaint about Copilot is that it doesn't seem to feed Intellisense prompts into the prediction, or validate predictions against them. That will make it so much more accurate when they fix that.

mistercow 3y ago
That depends on the context of what you’re doing. I’ve been learning Unity for some side projects, having never used it or even C# before, and in that context, it’s very different from when you’re comfortable with your environment. Just breaking a problem down comment by comment and letting Copilot try to translate as you do so is super effective for getting oriented. It knows the syntax, and you can easily tell after the fact if it’s doing the right thing. But it’s helped me discover a ton of features that I would have missed and replicated by hand in the old days.