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The response among programmers honestly feels very bimodal. There seems to be the camp that just loves LLMs and have turned to Copilot for everything. Persona
by SketchySeaBeast 2y ago
The response among programmers honestly feels very bimodal. There seems to be the camp that just loves LLMs and have turned to Copilot for everything. Personally, I used it to mock unit tests and that's all I really trust it with. Once I get to a problem I can't easily solve it's something obscure enough that there isn't a lot of web traffic for it and Copilot falls over too, so I find myself rarely using it. Sometimes it's helpful as an intellisense, but a lot of the time it's too slow even for that.
Its value as a text generator or, god help us, a search engine, has also run thin for me. I don't ever use it. I still prefer my google searches and going directly to sites.
- palmotea 2y ago> There seems to be the camp that just loves LLMs and have turned to Copilot for everything. I wonder if that's the same camp that wrote crappy half-ass code before LLMs? There are a lot of people like that.
- SketchySeaBeast 2y agoI actually don't think it is. I know some high performers who are absolutely in love with Copilot, so it's not just the poor devs. I honestly don't know what the difference is. Maybe it's workflow?