Its not useful for people, that do not invest the time to learn to work with it.
I know it’s not useful because I did invest time in learning to work with it. Both Chat GPT and Copilot invariably suck and produce bad to extremely bad output that takes away more of my time than they save.
Even you are basically saying this: “After a while you know, when proposed code has the chance to be useful, when I know that it can only be garbage, I don’t even look at it.”
So it’s a range between “chance to be useful” and “can only be garbage”. Basically, a junior dev with little understanding of product and code that you need to sit with and mentor.
Everybody I know, that invested some time, thinks different.
You now know me, and I’m not impressed
I agree, copilot is not good right now. But its the best we got in the IDE.
From my experience on a Javascript codebase I was working on it was consistently and significantly worse than Intellij IDEA. It consistently produced garbage.
Reason? Well, even if it’s a codebase in a popular language (Javascript) using a popular framework (React), it’s a code base for something unpopular (Google Cast integration) using internal libraries and APIs (that Copilot has no access to, and never will unless it is offered as a hosted service).
Same for ChatGPT. It’s reasonably useful for some simple tasks, but more often than not I’m better off writing actual code instead of fixing the obvious and non-obvious issues in the generated code
