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Re:GitHub Copilot by arcturus17 on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @11:07AM (#27676885)
> and the rest of the time it suggests something rather good, or completely off

In what, proportion roughly?

Re:GitHub Copilot by fzaninotto on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @11:10AM (#27676936)
Hard to say, really. When writing React components, Jest tests and documentation, it's often not very far. I found it off when writing HTML markup (which is hard to describe with words).
Re:GitHub Copilot by handrous on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @01:04PM (#27678682)
Seems like it's best classed (for now) as an automated tool to generate and apply all the boilerplate snippets I would be creating & using manually, if I weren't too lazy, and/or too often switching between projects, to set all those up and remember how to use them (and that they exist).