• thejml@sh.itjust.works
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    12 hours ago

    Copilot keeps finishing my code for me in near real time… it completely disrupts my train of thought and my productivity dropped tremendously. I finally disabled it.

    I LIKE writing code, stop trying to take the stuff away that I WANT to do and instead take away the stuff I HATE doing.

    • lauha@lemmy.world
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      8 hours ago

      What I don’t want AI to do:

      • write code for me
      • write fixes for me

      What I want it to do:

      • find bugs and tell me about them (but still don’t fix them)
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      9 hours ago

      Yeah, I just wrote a blog post comment about how I enjoy using Copilot. But that’s when I explicitly ask it a question or give it a task. The auto complete is wrong more often than it’s right.

      Probably doesn’t help that if it was tedious, boilerplate code I would have already explicitly asked it.

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        2 hours ago

        I like auto complete because I’m a terrible speller I’d write “int countOfCommplixThang”, but auto complete guesses “int countComplexThing” Sometimes it even comes up with a better name than I would

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          2 hours ago

          That old autocomplete is great. It’s specifically the AI autocomplete that’s less useful.

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            2 hours ago

            The AI is doing it though. I type “in [tab]” and I get the whole line. Sometimes I don’t even have to type anything.

            I’ve never been able to get an AI promt to write useful code though.