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I've been giving it a shot based on recommendations from my bosses, and I'm a senior+ dev. 80% of the time, the suggestions are either too generic for our code
by BowBun 3y ago
I've been giving it a shot based on recommendations from my bosses, and I'm a senior+ dev.
80% of the time, the suggestions are either too generic for our codebase and so has to be patched up with our variable names, methods, etc. About half the time it completely misses the mark/intent of what is being written, and offers an auto-complete for a different problem.
20% of the time, it actually acts like a full line or full section autocomplete. Areas I've found it particularly helpful are writing tests. For example I added a new integration yesterday that touched a bunch of interface files for those integrations. Copilot was able to pick up on that and auto-generate a 90% functional test with ~30 lines, including setup and assertions.
I'm not convinced it's saving me time yet since I have to correct it/ignore it most of the time. When it works, it's cool. And like another comment said, typing speed has never been a bottleneck for me (record of 155 wpm on typing tests, I probably sit around 120-130 for average day-to-day typing).