You can definitely ‘chat’ with copilot, like other llms as well as the inline editor auto complete.
The thing about co-pilot is if you don’t do anything with it it just sits there.
You can’t give it a prompt you actually have to code stuff it is a more advanced version of autocomplete. Now admittedly it can write very large chunks of boilerplate code which is extremely helpful but it can’t code the entire app and it can’t work with natural language prompts at all.
Respect chatGPT, (It really needs a better name) is a more capable coder than copilot
fuzzzerd@programming.dev 2 months ago
floofloof@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
GitHub Copilot does chat like ChatGPT, and writes code based on a prompt. I use it a lot, but it just gives me starting points. You can’t expect to build up a whole application with no coding work on your own part.