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Feels like its a magical thing for me honestly. although I'm never waiting for suggestion while coding, sometimes the suggestions just slipped through and there is the OMG moment when it completes your thought.

1 thing though, tab for auto complete still does not work for me.. ever




Same, I've enjoyed using it in a couple of one off scripts and honestly it made writing them more enjoyable because I was kind of excited to see what copilot would do. I asked it to write a js function to clean special characters from a string and it worked perfectly, I think, well it worked perfectly enough for the script to complete.

I can't speak to whether or not using copilot in long lasting projects would be a good idea, but even if you just tagged the copilot generated code with a comment that said '#TODO: Verify this is correct' I still think it would help you get a lot of work done that you would normally have to switch to stackoverflow to do.

One thing that I found very interesting from the article was the idea of anchoring bias, I definitely felt this a lot. When I used copilot to generate some nontrivial functions that were directly related to my problem, if the code did not work and I ended up erasing the generated code completely, I am just realising now that when I reimplemented it myself I was still essentially using the algorithm copilot had come up with.


Yeah tab didn’t work for me either. But then I turned off tab for autocomplete in settings and that seemed to fix it. I didn’t understand, but try it.




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