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I didn’t find Copilot all that useful. The only time I got any use from it was using a new library. It kind of worked for sketching out an initial attempt at us
by rcme 3y ago
I didn’t find Copilot all that useful. The only time I got any use from it was using a new library. It kind of worked for sketching out an initial attempt at using the library, at least good enough for me to get started. The code it generated was still wrong, however. For this reason, it’s actually harmful if I know what I’m doing.
I’ve had more luck with ChatGPT for programming help, again in situations where I was working on something unfamiliar but needed more context than provided by Copilot. Prompts like “write a Vulkan compute shader to find the max of a list of numbers” definitely got me started faster than I would be able to do on my own. Still, it’s not something I would consider fundamentally game changing.
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- _xivi 3y agoYeah, I found Copilot depends on how mainstream is your environment. It's like commuting by train, it count on the fact that many people share the destination. But if you start deviating and using niche languages or tasks, it's no longer viable.