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Idk, we got access to GH copilot with our project loaded in it to test it and understand if we should use it. Beyond unit tests and trivial code writing it's al
by Moldoteck 2y ago
Idk, we got access to GH copilot with our project loaded in it to test it and understand if we should use it. Beyond unit tests and trivial code writing it's almost useless. Even for unit tests I tried using the chat feature to ask it to generate ut for a specific function - at first I needed to convince it to generate them since it didn't 'want' to, finally, when convinced - it spewed such a garbage that I would have written everything faster by myself.
In other words, there's some value in autocompletion for simple use-cases, but the moment situation gets complicated involving adding a feature that impacts more files and that needs to do some data processing or something related to either writing threading related code or fix threading bugs - it just takes more time (at least for us, the xp is similar with my colleagues)
Maybe other companies did manage to squeeze real help in more complex situations from it or maybe gpt 4.5 is much better than copilot (I tried to use public chatgpt to detect some threading bug and still it couldn't find it, until in the end I found it by myself), but at least for us the xp with using copilot wasn't that stellar