Mixed
I found the Microsoft Copilot to be reasonably good when given a complete context with extremely limited scope
c12 on Hacker News
In the thread “Ask HN: Is your company forcing use of AI?”
Helped: Providing complete context and extremely limited scope for specific tasks.
Got in the way: Problems requiring imagination or multiple valid approaches.
… Work have provided Microsoft Copilot through Teams and Github Copilot through my IDE of choice. I found the Microsoft Copilot to be reasonably good when given a complete context with extremely limited scope such as being provided a WSDL for a SOAP service and asked to write functions that make calls and then writing unit tests for the whole thing. This had a right way and a wrong way of doing things and it did it almost perfectly. …