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[–] bmovement@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Copilot is pretty amazing for day to day coding, although I wonder if a junior dev might get led astray with some of its bad ideas, or too dependent on it in general.

Edit: shit, maybe I’m too dependent on it.

[–] JimmyMcGill@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I’m also having a good time with copilot

Considering asking my company to pay for the subscription as I can justify that it’s worth it.

Yes many times it is wrong but even if it it’s only 80% correct at least I get a suggestion on how to solve an issue. Many times it suggest a function and the code snippet has something missing but I can easily fix it or improve it. Without I would probably not know about that function at all.

I also want to start using it for documentation and unit tests. I think there it’s where it will really be useful.

Btw if you aren’t in the chat beta I really recommend it