[phillipcarter]

I don't think Copilot is useless at all. Today it's actually been very helpful for me with interactive, notebooks-based programming. And it's also just an early beta right now; as the model improves and the tooling around it matures a little more, I suspect I'll be using it a lot for interactive stuff.

Notebooks programming has a flow of "execute a small bit of code, check the results, and iterate", and this fits perfectly with Copilot since you still need to check if the suggestions work.

Maybe this kind of programming is where Copilot finds a niche, maybe not. I don't know. I'm skeptical of its use in larger applications where you can't trivially check if the code you wrote (with its help) did what you want. I think there needs to be a lot more tooling built around that to really make it compelling for larger applications like that, likely in the form of more editor tooling integrations. But I think it's promising. I wrote about that a little more here: https://phillipcarter.dev/posts/four-dev-tools-areas-future/...