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My little experience with AI coding, using copilot on Eclipse, was mixed... Context: I work with an old Java source code that uses Servlets and implements his
by Zardoz84 1y ago
My little experience with AI coding, using copilot on Eclipse, was mixed...
Context: I work with an old Java source code that uses Servlets and implements his own web framework. There is a lot of code without tests or comments.
The autocomplete, I find it useful. Specially doing menial, very automatic stuff like moving stuff when I refactor long methods. Even the suggestions of comments looks useful. However, the frequency with it jumps it's annoying. It needs to be dialed down somehow (I can only disable it). Plus, it eats the allowed autocomplete quota very quickly.
The "agent" chat. It's like tossing a coin. I find very useful when I need to write a tests for a class that don't have. At least, allows me to avoid writing the boiler player. But usually, I need to fix the mocking setup. Another case when it worked fine, it's when helped me to fix a warning that I had on a few VUE2 components. However, in other instances, I saw miserable falling to write useful code or messing very bad with the code. Our source code is in ISO8859-1 (I asked many times to migrate it to UTF8), and for some reason, sometimes Copilot agent messes the encoding and I need to manually fix all the mess.
So... The agent/chat mode, I think that could be useful, if you know in what cases it would do it ok. The autocomplete is very useful, but needs to be dialed down.