[tpmoney]

> Also, I just checked the FAQ for Copilot, and it says that users only accept 26% of suggestions, so 3/4 suggestions are garbage.

Without knowing the specific statistic being reported I’m not sure you can reach that conclusion. Copilots plug-ins can be configured to suggest as you type just like any other auto complete. It may just be that the user has paused and doesn’t need the suggestion being offered.

And it’s not like people use 100% of the suggestions their auto complete tools provide, but that doesn’t make those suggestions garbage.

[jacobr1]

Also 25% seems pretty good! If I could cut out writing 25% of the code I write per day, I'd consider that a good value, even it cost me reviewing the 3/4 of other code snippets that were stinkers. Some of the latter might also help form in my head how the manually written code should be done anyway.

I haven't tried copilot yet, but chatgpt code generation is probably useful to me 1/3 of time as a stack-overflow/reference-doc replacement. "I need a thing foo to perform bar in context baz" which I then will right myself using the pattern. But the lookup was way faster than googling tons of results.