My attempts at getting the models available to Copilot to author functions for me have often failed spectacularly
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40k lines of code
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Helped: Claude Code on smaller personal C++ projects.
Got in the way: Copilot failed to generate edits or follow examples in large legacy code.
… One of the main files I work on is ~40k lines of code, and one of the main proprietary API headers I consume is ~40k lines of code. My attempts at getting the models available to Copilot to author functions for me have often failed spectacularly - as in I can't even get it to generate edits at prescribed places in the source code, follow examples from prescribed places. And the hallucination issue is EXTREME when trying to use the big C API I alluded to. …