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Have you used it? I’m never ever canceling my GitHub Copilot subscription. It’s revolutionary.

by wincy 3y ago

JohnFen 3y ago
I used it for a while, but didn't find that it was beneficial enough to incorporate into my daily work. Perhaps I'm using it wrong, though.
- LoganDark 3y ago
  It's best used for boilerplate, utility functions that are really simple but annoying to rewrite over and over. Or test harnesses, or things like that. Basically, things it's seen before, rather than application-specific stuff. Basically: It can't think for you, but it can copy and paste for you. As long as you audit the output, which should be easy for this stuff.
  - JohnFen 3y ago
    Yeah, that's what I heard so that's one of the ways I tried using it. It's not compellingly useful in that role for me, though. I found it no quicker or easier than just writing (or copy/pasting from other code I wrote) it myself in the first place. But I'll confess that I may be unusual -- I also don't find the old-fashioned code-completion stuff useful. That's for a different reason, though: it actively gets in my way.
    - LoganDark 3y ago
      I don't use it or find it useful either.
    - myaccountonhn 3y ago
      I dont find it useless but if it wasn’t for work giving if for free i wouldn't pay for it. I’ve been using it a bit to learn rust. It often generates code that is correct or seem correct but is horribly inefficient and sometimes just wrong. I don’t feel I can trust it. When I use it for programming languages I am experienced with, it often isn't giving super useful suggestions or just generates very ugly code.
- mu53 3y ago
  The first I tried it, not impressed, but on some projects, it literally does 75% of the typing for me. I think it has to do with whether there is a similar open source project out there. The more unique your work, the less likely it is to find a good recommendation
goalieca 3y ago
Yes. I don’t get it. I don’t write tons of lines of code but when I do it has to be secure, readable, and well understood. Some of the answers from copilot are just wrong and others are less than useful. Edit: I don’t write a lot of code, but I read a ton. I think that lines up with most mature code bases and senior staff.

Have you used it? I’m never ever canceling my GitHub Copilot subscription. It’s revolutionary.

by wincy 3y ago

Have you used it? I’m never ever canceling my GitHub Copilot subscription. It’s revolutionary.

I used it for a while, but didn't find that it was beneficial enough to incorporate into my daily work. Perhaps I'm using it wrong, though.

LoganDark 3y ago
It's best used for boilerplate, utility functions that are really simple but annoying to rewrite over and over. Or test harnesses, or things like that. Basically, things it's seen before, rather than application-specific stuff. Basically: It can't think for you, but it can copy and paste for you. As long as you audit the output, which should be easy for this stuff.
- JohnFen 3y ago
  Yeah, that's what I heard so that's one of the ways I tried using it. It's not compellingly useful in that role for me, though. I found it no quicker or easier than just writing (or copy/pasting from other code I wrote) it myself in the first place. But I'll confess that I may be unusual -- I also don't find the old-fashioned code-completion stuff useful. That's for a different reason, though: it actively gets in my way.
  - LoganDark 3y ago
    I don't use it or find it useful either.
  - myaccountonhn 3y ago
    I dont find it useless but if it wasn’t for work giving if for free i wouldn't pay for it. I’ve been using it a bit to learn rust. It often generates code that is correct or seem correct but is horribly inefficient and sometimes just wrong. I don’t feel I can trust it. When I use it for programming languages I am experienced with, it often isn't giving super useful suggestions or just generates very ugly code.
mu53 3y ago
The first I tried it, not impressed, but on some projects, it literally does 75% of the typing for me. I think it has to do with whether there is a similar open source project out there. The more unique your work, the less likely it is to find a good recommendation

goalieca 3y ago

Yes. I don’t get it. I don’t write tons of lines of code but when I do it has to be secure, readable, and well understood. Some of the answers from copilot are just wrong and others are less than useful. Edit: I don’t write a lot of code, but I read a ton. I think that lines up with most mature code bases and senior staff.