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YesCopilot, ChatGPT · 13 Dec 2023

I can usually guess when it will save me keystrokes (when I am doing something repetitive) and will look out for it, otherwise usually I ignore what it gives me, but sometimes it surprises me and saves me more than a few keystrokes

ativzzz on Hacker News

full functions a handful of times

In the thread “Ask HN: Is anyone using GitHub Copilot in production?”

Helped: Autocomplete for repetitive tasks and occasional short snippets.

Got in the way: Full function suggestions are usually quite wrong.

I just use it as an autocomplete. I can usually guess when it will save me keystrokes (when I am doing something repetitive) and will look out for it, otherwise usually I ignore what it gives me, but sometimes it surprises me and saves me more than a few keystrokes. My company pays for it, I don't think I'd pay for it personally since I use chatGPT when I need more advanced help and copilot is just autocomplete. …