Mixed
the chat-style assistant is a huge plus. Especially in DevOps (my main work) the codegen is rather unhelpful, but the ability to let LLMs explain some sections and help in rubber-ducking is huge
roboyoshi on Hacker News
In the thread “GitHub Copilot Workspace: Technical Preview”, replying to this comment
Helped: Chat-style assistant for explaining sections and rubber-ducking in DevOps.
Got in the way: Code generation was rather unhelpful for their main work.
Interesting stuff! I've been trying ollama/gpt + continue.dev and copilot in VSCode for a bit now and the chat-style assistant is a huge plus. Especially in DevOps (my main work) the codegen is rather unhelpful, but the ability to let LLMs explain some sections and help in rubber-ducking is huge. I see that a good output requires a good input (prompt). …