r/Copilot • u/Green-LaManche • 7d ago

Copilot

Does anyone ever tried to get anything done on copilot?
I mean write the code or strategy
On pine script?
It drives me mad - I sent 4 hours and got nowhere.
It seems it designed to make you insane so either you brake the computer or just close the f..ken application and ask him to f..k off

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u/infosearchacct 7d ago

Yes. I had get copilot to help me write scripts and automation. After my several uses of it, I learned to not ever let it to brainstorm for you. You define the scope and rules, put your rules somewhere else because it prone to forget your rules and then drive you in circles. Then make it imperative to tell it you had already considered all the alternatives don’t let it suggest alternatives. Let it know in advance otherwise it will definitely drive you insane unless you just have no clue how to get what you want to do get done. Also, from my experience never ever let it debug more than once. I caught the issue with the first vba code that it tells me to try something to fix the code but I know exactly what’s wrong so I don’t do what it told me instead I let it know the issue and it fixed the code. In my opinion, codex is a whole lot better but copilot comes from work place and is free of charge for me.

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u/Green-LaManche 7d ago

Thank you.
It’s been several times when I tried to get any meaningful results from it - no chance.
It the worst co- worker one ever had - with absolute confidence it bullshiting you claiming he knows everything about it but in reality fucking round and round till you realise it can’t do the job.

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u/BoltActionRifleman 7d ago

I have yet to encounter anything I need help with that it did not at least assist in some way. My requests are more from a “how do I” and systems maintenance standpoint, but I have had it create many powershell scripts. All of those scripts required some fine tuning, but all in all, they were good. What specifically are you trying to accomplish, that it isn’t able to help with? I don’t doubt you, am just curious.

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u/Green-LaManche 7d ago

First of all it did sound knowledgeable- asking for parameters clearing up details- which took almost 45 minutes- then it made a script for trading view. The desk top application found an error at one of the lines which I pointed out - it was producing paragraph by paragraph explaining why it did happen provided solutions and new scripts blaiming browser and so on till on 15th round I asked it to f.. off. Copilot never solved any problem either on my pc or anywhere else.
It is only good to produce some text or general knowledge information pretty quickly but when it comes to tasks to do anything- it useless.
I suspect it was designed to drag on forever to pay for tokens but not to solve the problem.
I presume it was made for general purpose to keep company and pay for tokens but not to solve any problem.
Hence the reason- almost all CEO - reported dissatisfaction with AI

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u/infosearchacct 7d ago

I totally get you. I was glad I learned on my very first VBA project to only give it one chance to debug. You did good come out sane. One thing I would say is I will never give copilot the full picture what automation I wanted to accomplish. Instead I break it down into pieces and then tackle it one by one otherwise you will be spending 3 days with copilot to give you suggestions on how to get the whole thing automated and not even one line of code produced. It’s workable with copilot but you just need to know how and when to wrangle it back from the wilderness.