[jmarchello]

I used Copilot for several months and there were times when I was “wow”ed and others where it’s just got in the way.

I recently decided to make my editor much more minimal and even went so far as to disable autocomplete entirely. So far I haven’t noticed a reduction in my productivity and actually find it much easier to think about what I’m writing since I’m not having to correct autocomplete and Copilot all the time. All the extra things popping up on the screen were really distracting and I find that for me, a minimal approach gives me more space to think deeply.

[mwint]

The main thing I find copilot good for is things that are easy to validate, but tedious (not hard!) to write. Stuff like colors for different statuses, or error messages.

I actually love it for writing error messages. Keeps me in flow better not having to switch to writing Human English every five lines when something fails validation.

[jmarchello]

I agree, in fact I used it to generate a list of colors for a very simple color picker at work. It was very helpful. That said I could also have a chat interface do that for me when I want it, so I can keep my editing experience distraction free.