Okay imagine you’re an employee. You are ranked against your coworkers based on individual productivity, either explicitly or implicitly.
You can choose to either spend $10/month to get a big productivity multiplier, or you can play it by the book, not use it, and be the first one out the door the next time the company decides it needs to find efficiencies in a down market. What do you choose?
Buying copilot on my own, using a personal account, would have me fired for violating our data security policies. No need to wait for a layoff.
I have access to it now, but it’s through the company with whatever policies they put in place through Microsoft’s enterprise offering.
Now that I have it, I don’t find it that useful. It has not been the productivity multiplier I was promised. A big part of this could be down to how the plug-in is built in VS Code. The tab key hijacking made me turn off suggestions. Based on the stats, only about 20% of suggestions are accepted. That’s too low a number to take control of a key used as often as tab.
> Can't you rebind the tab key in the VS Code plugin to something else?
That was my goal. I figured tab + some modifier would be great. I spent quite a while looking for ways to do it, tried about a dozen, but it doesn’t seem like the feature exists. Eventually I had to just turn it off so I could actually get my work done.
You can choose to either spend $10/month to get a big productivity multiplier, or you can play it by the book, not use it, and be the first one out the door the next time the company decides it needs to find efficiencies in a down market. What do you choose?