[lostmsu]

Just today Copilot saved me close to 1 hour of typing and replaced it essentially with ~1 minute of pressing Tab.

I was hooking IAudioClient COM class to capture and silence arbitrary app's audio, and as soon as I wrote signatures for its members Copilot was able to generate skeletal stub implementation with logging as well as hooking code totaling about 150 lines of Rust.

[DrakeDeaton]

This is an example of why codebases with strict typing & clear conventions will benefit the most from copilot.

[ColonelPhantom]

It would be even better if Copilot was able to make use of the strict typing to prevent generating code that doesn't typecheck in the first place, to be honest. Copilot as-is actually feels more useful for dynamic languages, because static languages get really far without any LLMs and simple static autocomplete gets you really far. So there's more ground to make up.

In addition, Copilot benefits from a large training set, which I guess is best for Python and JavaScript as two very popular languages. Strictly typed languages seem like they are generally less well represented, at least among public GitHub projects.