I’ve been trying to use Copilot for a few days to get some help writing against code stored on GitHub.
Copilot has been pretty useless. It couldn’t maintain context for more than two exchanges.
Copilot: here’s some C code to do that
Me: convert that to $OTHER_LANGUAGE
Copilot: what code would you like me to convert?
Me: the code you just generated
Copilot: if you can upload a file or share a link to the code, I can help you translate it …
It points me in a direction that’s a minimum of 15 degrees off true north (“true north” being the goal for which I am coding), usually closer to 90 degrees. When I ask for code, it hallucinates over half of the API calls.
I’m sure you have no idea what my method is. Besides, this whole “you’re holding it wrong” mentality isn’t productive - our technology should be adapting to us, we shouldn’t need to adapt ourselves to it.
Anyway, I can just use another LLM that serves me better.
Copilot has been pretty useless. It couldn’t maintain context for more than two exchanges.
Copilot: here’s some C code to do that
Me: convert that to $OTHER_LANGUAGE
Copilot: what code would you like me to convert?
Me: the code you just generated
Copilot: if you can upload a file or share a link to the code, I can help you translate it …
It points me in a direction that’s a minimum of 15 degrees off true north (“true north” being the goal for which I am coding), usually closer to 90 degrees. When I ask for code, it hallucinates over half of the API calls.