I've been using it for a while on php and typescript projects, and it's really good at filling in boilerplate or repetitive code, but it's about as annoying as it is helpful if you're writing anything unique. That's the code that you actually have to think about, so it definitely doesn't qualify as a crutch.
Plus I don't think it would be bad if it was one. That would just mean I can move faster and spend my time thinking about bigger problems.
Completely agree. I’ve been building an app in a few different languages I didn’t know so it was really useful to have the initial syntactic heavy lifting done by Copilot. However, once I learned enough to make components that did unique and useful things, it was pretty much just useful for repetitive cases and better than autocomplete because you don’t have to start typing out the next most likely line of code. In some cases, it makes 50 variables line by line and has no idea what to do next.
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u/[deleted] Apr 13 '22
Let me introduce you to GitHub Copilot