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I am a 20+ year polyglot developer. I just cancelled my Github Copilot sub. Sometimes, it was magical, but more often it was mediocre and just got in the way.
by mring33621 2y ago
I am a 20+ year polyglot developer. I just cancelled my Github Copilot sub.
Sometimes, it was magical, but more often it was mediocre and just got in the way.
I generally have better luck with a back-and-forth chat with an LLM on the web and then cutting/pasting the snippets into my IDE. I can do those for free.
Will try again in a year, probably.
- sneak 2y agoI find ChatGPT4 to be substantially better than Copilot at writing Go code. I wish it easily integrated into an editor and I didn’t have to copy paste so much.
- causal 2y ago+1 on being more productive with chat than Copilot. I find copilot mostly to be a useful Google replacement, e.g. if I forget the syntax for a for loop in JavaScript I can just write a comment like `// For loop over X` and it will spit out the boilerplate I need without breaking my flow. In either case it's really important not to get stuck "trying to make it do what I want". If an LLM can't solve your problem in 3 tries, you're probably asking too much of it.