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As an SWE, my problem isn’t boilerplate. It’s architecture and orchestration. I cancelled my Copilot subscription because it just doesn’t help with this. Let al
by shortcake27 3y ago
As an SWE, my problem isn’t boilerplate. It’s architecture and orchestration. I cancelled my Copilot subscription because it just doesn’t help with this. Let alone ChatGPT which has zero context about the application.
I would like an AI to tell me if I’m reinventing the wheel or if something similar can be abstracted. Whether what I’m doing aligns with existing patterns in the codebase. How the application as a whole could be refactored to improve maintainability, performance, or both.
This can all already be done by a human with experience and context, so it must be possible with AI. This will be the biggest game changer for me.
- slashdev 3y agoI can’t believe you canceled copilot, at $10 a month it pays for itself every single day for me. I’m just baffled how it can be so useful for me and not useful for you.
- __loam 3y agoOnce you get over the novelty it gets pretty annoying.
- slashdev 3y agoI’ve been using it for a full year now, that’s just not been my experience.
- TillE 3y agoI've found it extremely similar to IntelliCode for C#, which is not very impressive. Surprisingly I've found it does a better job of writing accurate comments than generating useful code. Maybe it's good for some languages, or for code that's doing the exact stuff a hundred people have already written. Copilot X certainly looks cool, but who knows when that'll be ready.
- slashdev 3y agoI use it the other way around. I write the comments first and then I find it can often fill in the code. I find it especially helpful with SQL queries, and with boilerplate type code. It’s also very helpful when I’d need to lookup the usage of various methods. I just start with the comments and most of the time it saves me the context switch to the browser to lookup the usage.