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Re:GitHub Copilot X: The AI-powered developer experience by mrinterweb on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @01:26PM (#35264275)
I use copilot, and I feel that it is useful about 40% of the time. Most of the time the suggestions are not what I'm going for, sometime the suggestions are close or help me think through the solution easier, and occasionally spot on and I can tab complete the code.

I've noticed that the suggestion quality/usefulness varies considerably between projects and programming languages. For a self-contained bash script, it is incredibly useful. For a rails application, less so.

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Re:GitHub Copilot X: The AI-powered developer experience by mrinterweb on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @03:44PM (#35266175)
Still most of the time, the suggestions are not helpful, and it takes time to look at the suggestion and dismiss it. So I'm usually torn between is this useful or distracting. Curiosity keeps it around, but I keep getting closer to dropping it as the novelty wears.
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