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NoChatGPT, Copilot · 29 Oct 2024

But working on our actual codebase with copilot in the IDE (Rider, in my case) is a net negative

Yodel0914 on Hacker News

In the thread “GitHub cuts AI deals with Google, Anthropic”, replying to this comment

Helped: Writing scripts against well-known APIs and answering specific how-to questions.

Got in the way: Generating whole code blocks that misunderstand intent and invent non-existent methods.

… How do I do that?". But working on our actual codebase with copilot in the IDE (Rider, in my case) is a net negative. It usually does OK when it's suggesting the completion of a single line, but when it decides to generate a whole block it invariably misunderstands the point of the code. …