Are you talking about copilot, that bar that is on the side of Microsoft edge or something else? Maybe GitHub Copilot?
Because that copilot bar on Microsoft edge is literally a pointless waste of electricity
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Serinus@lemmy.world 7 hours agoCopilot isn’t bad, but generally I agree.
It’s a tool that can be helpful, or you can just create problems for yourself down the road.
It’s a lot like building a house. After all the drywall is up, it’s hard to tell if the studs are 18 inches apart or five feet apart, but you’re gonna find out eventually.
Wispy2891@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Serinus@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Oh, I was talking about GitHub copilot that’s in visual studio.
AlecSadler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 hours ago
Would love to know how you finagle Copilot to be useful, the code it generates and the things it suggests make me throw my hands up like 9/10.
Once in a blue moon I try to use it again, and it’s laughable. It’s like I told someone non-technical to do something super technical and… it’s just 100% discard or 50% rewrite. I guess it just feels like it isn’t saving me any time so…why?
For context I’ve only used it in VS Code or Visual Studio. If there is some other avenue or process that’s better, let me know.
Serinus@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
I’m usually just very targeted in what I ask it to do. I keep it to things I know will be in the basic reference books or on stack overflow. It basically just saves me from having to look up and apply existing examples to my code.
It makes for a pretty good ORM.