I use Copilot a lot at work. This morning I had to write some complicated tests with Mockito and rather than looking at the docs I asked Copilot a lot of questions, showed it sample of my code, it make me examples like you'd see in Stack Overflow except they were (1) personalized to me and (2) correct
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Helped: Asking questions, showing code samples, and requesting specific patterns.
… (Lately I've been writing a chess program which is pretty easy if you read https://www.chessprogramming.org/Main_Page but something I couldn't do on my own.) I use Copilot a lot at work. This morning I had to write some complicated tests with Mockito and rather than looking at the docs I asked Copilot a lot of questions, showed it sample of my code, it make me examples like you'd see in Stack Overflow except they were (1) personalized to me and (2) correct. If I don't like the code it shows me I tell it "I'd rather initialize the mocks inside the @Test" and it does that. …