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by _fat_santa 1466 days ago
My biggest issue with Copilot (and the reason I don't really use it anymore) is that it got in the way much more than it seemed to help. I work with Typescript codebases and in VSCode, you get very nice intellisense autocompletion on objects. What I found is that with Copilot that totally breaks down where Copilot will override intellisense and provide you with a hint.

I found it fun to play with for smaller projects, but during my day to day work I found that it always seemed to get in the way. You're trying to type out a function and Copilot is always there going "do you mean this", eventually you just turn it off.

I'm sure there are some good use cases for it, but in my line of work I found it to only really be useful for small things and toy projects where you are trying to demo the capabilities of Copilot more than you are trying to actually build an app.

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Does VS Code not show the two sets in different interface elements? In Jetbrains Rider is shows suggestions (completion) in a dropdown, and it shows Copilot inline. And you press a different key for each.
I’m not sure which keybinds you have enabled (possibly through VS Studio style?), but in PyCharm/Rider for me (IDEA keybinds) both completions and Copilot use tab to complete, which as the user you replied to has said, tends to get in the way and trip me up as often as the relevant suggestions provide something of benefit.