[andrewstuart]

I tried GitHub copilot in vscode. It was immensely frustrating.

The main problem was context. It didn’t seem to know what files to use for our discussion, didn’t listen when I told it, didn’t remember when I told it, had no effective way that I could bring files in and out of the discussion.

All this led to a deeply frustrating session of interaction and frankly I hated it. Easier to use ChatGPT web ui and copy and paste in and out.

GitHub copilot I found better in jetbrains ides. It seemed mostly to know what I was asking about though it’s very long was from being good at managing context.

It’s surprising that after the amount of development they’ve put into copilot it still is so bad at what I’d consider to be barest minimum functionality to integrate into an IDE.