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by caditinpiscinam 1219 days ago
What's the benefit of using copilot over a package manager? Both help you reuse code that's already been written, but using packages gives you updates, explicit dependency tracking, documentation, etc.
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I don't think you've ever tried copilot.

It's amazing at specific things, like being z context aware boilerplate generator or doing the scaffolding of an algorithm from a comment describing it.

That's really different than using libraries.

it's not about reusing code, it's about generating code, ie, autocomplete, except the generator trys to recognize what you are trying to / most probably writing and suggests it. Great for boilerplate type code.