[mavamaarten]

My opinion swings between hype to hate every day. Yesterday all suggestions / edits / answers were hallucinated garbage, and I was ready to remove the copilot plugin altogether. Today I was stuck at a really annoying problem for hours and hours. For shits and giggles I just gave Claude a stacktrace and a description and let it go ham. It produced an amazingly accurate thought train and found my issue, which was not what I was expecting at all.

I still don't see how it's useful for generating features and codebases, but as a rubber ducky it ain't half bad.

[aydyn]

Well part of your problem is you are still using copilot. Its fully outdated compared to claude/codex. This tech moves fast.

[mavamaarten]

Well, I gotta use whatever my organization whitelists and provides me a license for. I do use Claude models inside copilot (for Ask/Edit/Agent mode).

[aydyn]

Totally understand. My org only allows copilot by default. I convinced my manager to pay for claude, but it was a serious battle to point out how much better it is.

[keyle]

This is a hundred percent true. I felt the same.

What has helped has been to turn off ALL automatic AI, e.g. auto complete, and bind it to a shortcut key to show up on request... And forget it exists.

Until I feel I need it, and then it's throw shit at the wall type moment but we've all been there.

It does save a lot of time as a google on steroid, and wtf-solver. But it's a tool best kept in its box, with a safety lock.