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by mikepurvis 309 days ago
I've found this is an interesting balance with Copilot specifically. Like, on the one hand I'm glad it aims for the bare minimum and doesn't try to refactor my whole codebase on every shot... at the same time, there's certain obvious things where I wish it was able to think a bit bigger picture, or even engage me interactively, like "hey, I can do a self-contained implementation here, but it's a bit gross; it looks like adding dependency X to the project keeps this a one liner— which way should it go?"
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Give me a 'precision' slider then. On one end it should do precisely what you asked, to a T, even if what you asked for is dumb, and on the other end it should try to capture the spirit of what you wanted plus any obvious oversights.