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On a slightly related note, does anyone feel copilot is not as powerful as it used to be? It's kind of hard to pinpoint exactly what it is, but it feels like it
by CapsAdmin 2y ago
On a slightly related note, does anyone feel copilot is not as powerful as it used to be? It's kind of hard to pinpoint exactly what it is, but it feels like it often either does nothing, or generates the bare minimum.
I think one concrete thing is writing a comment about a function, then expecting that function below the comment, but instead you get more comments.
- spiderfarmer 2y agoClose the comment, write 'function' and wait a little.
- littlecranky67 2y agoVery same experience. Plus, the guardrails have just become ridicioulus.
- whywhywhywhy 2y agoSeems the trend with most LLM tech is once the users are there the model is quantized or downgraded down to the bare minimum level of usefulness either silently or through new versions that are just not better in real use.
- nightfly 2y agoSee also: search engines, streaming platforms, etc...
- bugtodiffer 2y agoCapitalism <3
- mcv 2y agoYeah, I'm reluctant to trust these paid online LLMs. I want to run my own, but they're all far too big for that. Except Deepseek, which can apparently run on a Pi with an eGPU, and is apparently better than ChatGPT at coding. So running that locally should be possible and helpful and make you totally independent from whatever shenanigans these AI peddlers want to impose on you.
- bshacklett 2y agoJust a data point my experience with ChatGPT has only gotten better and better.
- dwood_dev 2y agoNewer models, yes. But newer versions of the same model seem to get much dumber over time. That is to say, the release version of ChatGPT GPT4o seemed much better than the version today. This does not apply to the API.
- jkukul 2y agoAgree 100%. I noticed that on the Copilot settings page [1] you can switch to Claude Sonnet model (instead of a model trained by Github I assume?). In my experience this improves things. [1] https://github.com/settings/copilot https://github.com/settings/copilot
- emsign 2y agoI didn't notice any decline, it still gives me code that is wrong almost every time.
- sfn42 2y agoI've only tried copilot once and this is exactly my experience. I'd write a comment to try to prompt it, then it would keep writing the comment instead of the function. Best I could do was make it write the function as a comment then uncomment it. I prefer to just write code myself
- travisjungroth 2y agoYou can also take care of this by ending the comment and writing the function or class keyword for your language, like “def”.
- bugtodiffer 2y agoYou're just disillusioned, AI was never that good
- sixothree 2y agoI haven’t literally never gotten my copilot integration in visual studio to provide anything usable. I don’t mean this hyperbolically. I literally don’t understand what we are paying for.