Copilot is great but I think the media overstates how much productivity gain it's giving software engineers. Let's just say it's true that it's writing ~50% of the code but it's not the same as only need half the size of engineering team - most of our time is spent on not writing code.

copilot is barely even good at coding in my experience. i can only use it reliably for boilerplate that i have to explicitly prompt it with. also with writing documentation it can help me finish sentences, but it has no ability to predict what the function does after i wrote it unless i start the docs myself

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My SO uses GPT-4 via Chat GPT Plus and says it’s exponentially better. Perhaps when they release Copilot X it’s worth another shot

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Agreed, I start with GPT-4 if I'm in uncharted waters because it'll give me 60% good functions or sometimes entire files, and then I can manually fix or update through conversation with it, leaving copilot to help with smaller iterations and unit tests (which I've had great luck with)