Github copilot has actually been incredibly useful for me.
Writing boilerplate and starting new files was always so slow/boring, but copilot kinda helps me continue my flow (even when its suggestions are completely wrong).
Fair warning that sometimes its suggestions are subtlety wrong so you still need to read it over - but since it’s there my mind immediately jumps to verifying it as opposed to the risk of distraction when having to type things from scratch with limited autocomplete.
Yeah exactly and if it messes up delete what you started with and try writing a comment about what you want it to do, often then it codes something better than I would.
You just need to get good at writing comments or descriptive function names.
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Github copilot has actually been incredibly useful for me.
Writing boilerplate and starting new files was always so slow/boring, but copilot kinda helps me continue my flow (even when its suggestions are completely wrong).
Fair warning that sometimes its suggestions are subtlety wrong so you still need to read it over - but since it’s there my mind immediately jumps to verifying it as opposed to the risk of distraction when having to type things from scratch with limited autocomplete.
This! Github copilot is like a search engine for code without the distracting elements of a traditional search engine, for me atleast.
Yeah exactly and if it messes up delete what you started with and try writing a comment about what you want it to do, often then it codes something better than I would.
You just need to get good at writing comments or descriptive function names.
right. I look at bad code generation like an inaccurate search query I used in google.