You have to put it in Ask mode so it doesn’t touch your code also ChatGPT models are free so if you want to ring up an AI bill use the Claude and Sonnet models.
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takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days agoCopilot is shit.
Exactly, my company provides license for copilot and I use it, and while it has some highlights most of the time it actually is more a nuisance than help.
It especially annoys me because it hijacks autocomplete based on types with is own that frequently has subtle bugs, so now if I have it enabled I need to be on guard all the time. With the traditional autocomplete I could just trust it to be correct.
mx_smith@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Pieisawesome@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
You can turn off the copilot autocomplete in the ide and JUST use agent/edit/ask mode
AdamBomb@lemmy.sdf.org 3 days ago
Turn off the autocomplete, it’s shit. Do use agent mode for targeted tasks that are easy but laborious. Don’t give open ended or subjective prompts. Don’t ask it to do anything creative or novel. It has its uses. Nowhere near what the snake oil salesmen would have you believe, and probably not worth the unsubsidized cost, but for now it has uses.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 days ago
i wonder if this the reason why its so bad on the phones, it autocomplete with words that arnt even close to what you are typing.
Buckshot@programming.dev 4 days ago
This is my experience. It saves a bit of typing sometimes but that’s probably cancelled out by the time spent correcting it, rewriting nonsense it produced, and reviewing my corworkers PRs that didn’t notice the nonsense.
Blooper@lemmynsfw.com 3 days ago
Here’s where I’ll give it credit:
Doesn’t make up for the annoying-ass auto complete hijacking though. Stupid thing keeps making up non-existent functions and api’s and inserting them all over the place.