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Github copilot is utter garbage. The diffing crawls along at a snail’s pace. I think it’s coming up on two years and this must criticised aspect of it still isn
by arresin 1y ago
Github copilot is utter garbage. The diffing crawls along at a snail’s pace. I think it’s coming up on two years and this must criticised aspect of it still isn’t fixed—-even with all the reverse engineering of how cursor did it. I wish I could find an alternative to cursor (which has other issues). Honestly, that company just threw away a golden opportunity as the first mover.
- sourcecodeplz 1y agoWhy did they throw it away? Because of the new opaque pricing?
- swader999 1y agoThey let their moat dry right up.
- bredren 1y agoI've done evaluations of Github Copilot, Sourcegraph Cody and Gitlab Duo and Copilot is not garbage, but rather the by far leader among these other options.
- zhivota 1y agoDid you compare to Cursor? We gave up on Copilot a while back after Cursor blew us away. In the context of this article though, Cursor is very obviously tuned better towards Claude than OpenAI in my experience.
- grumple 1y agoCursor's agent is better, but the in-editor suggestions by Copilot when you're actually the one coding are very useful. Claude's agent is better than Cursor, so I'm not sure where Cursor fits in with this ecosystem.
- mkozlows 1y ago"Best option among loser tools" isn't the high praise you think it is, though.
- electroly 1y agoDid you compare it against any actual leading tools? Cody and Duo, really? Did you try Cursor and Claude Code?
- bredren 1y agoCursor and Claude Code are different modalities. The org provides licenses and API access to both these tools. However, many engineers still use vscode, jetbrains and vim. I maintain copilot is the best for cross IDE modality.
- cebert 1y agoI’m not sure why you’re getting downvoted. I agree that Copilot seems like complete rubbish.