Mixed
I've had reasonable success just sticking single giant functions into context and asking Sonnet 4.5 targeted questions
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Helped: Sticking single giant functions into context for targeted questions.
Got in the way: Copilot suggestions are terrible; whole files hit token limits.
… The Copilot version of this is just fucking terrible at suggesting anything remotely useful about our codebase. I've had reasonable success just sticking single giant functions into context and asking Sonnet 4.5 targeted questions (is anything in this function modifying X, does this function appear to be doing Y) as a shortcut for reading through the whole thing or scattershot text search. When I try to give it a whole file I actually hit single-query token limits. …