• Serinus@lemmy.world
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    10 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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      3 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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        3 hours ago

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

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          3 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.