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An example would help me understand this better, if it's not too much to ask :)
by mangamadaiyan 2y ago
An example would help me understand this better, if it's not too much to ask :)
- Mashimo 2y agoYou can use it as a "better" rubberduck and bounce ideas back and forth. Just with like a coworker, wich also is not 100% right. Or sometimes I use it for languages which I'm not god at, but still can read it. I'm a 10+ year Java programmer. But sometimes I want some small bash / python / powershell script. For example a powershell script to change power state profile. It spits something out in seconds, I can read it, understand it and ask for changes. With a large java project I don't use it much. But sometimes, and then I also read the code the check if it does what I want to happen. Sometimes I can just describe a problem in English, copilot will create something that I think is wrong, but it gives me an idea on how to solve it myself.
- jawilson2 2y agoThe coolest thing copilot or whatever did in vscode for me was generating a block of boost::regex code for c++. I started typing it, and it generated a block of 10 or so lines that would have been 10 minutes or so of deciphering boost docs, writing a simple test, failing, recompiling, etc. There is nothing worse than dealing with regexes, and it wrote the function for me, and then I wrote tests and verified it did what I needed. Then copilot was blocked at work. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯