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by vbezhenar 543 days ago
I'm using Copilot daily and I didn't find any improvements over last year. I think they introduced something called Copilot Edits which works kind of like aider judging from screenshots, but it's experimental, so I didn't try it. It's basically glorified autocomplete and that's about it. At least I didn't discover anything new.
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The glorified autocomplete only applies to the completions. Granted, that's often the primary interaction, but it isn't the whole story. Using chat+edits can enable copilot to make changes across entire file(s). I still haven't found it perfectly reliable for large scale edits, but it has proved useful for handling the sort of busywork that may occur when refactoring. I'd love to hear stories where copilot actually made meaningful contributions to unique/interesting projects. The demo's often showcase making mundane modifications to yet-another-website or spawning a project into existence, which is neither very compelling nor something I do often.