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I have enterprise access to Github Copilot and it is surprisingly bad for code generation compared to the free version of ChatGPT (I mainly use it for generatin

I have enterprise access to Github Copilot and it is surprisingly bad for code generation compared to the free version of ChatGPT (I mainly use it for generating simple functions in C). It always generates incomplete functions and there seems to be no way to increase the text generation window or even follow up. On top of it, I am only able to use it through VS Code and I couldn't ever figure how to use their chat interface plugin. Overall it just feels like an incomplete product. I would've been happy with a chat interface on the web. If they're already losing money I can't believe how bad it would become once the enshittification begins.

ikekkdcjkfke 3y ago
It's gotta run for some time to see your code and see what youre trying to do. For chat you just highlight code and ask it to do stuff with it, translate, transformstions, explain it etc.
inpdx 3y ago
My experience is that it completes boilerplate very well. I don't generally ask it to do anything super complex, but what it does I'm very happy with.
infecto 3y ago
On the flip side it works really well for me for both autocomplete and the chat interface. I mostly work in Python so perhaps the support is better, have not used it with C. It definitely does not feel complete but I do get tons of value out of it for the price. The one major complaint I have is the filtering it does to prevent copy protected code. Sometimes it will just get stuck and there is no way to get it out of sending the same matched public code so I end up stuck with starting the conversation over.