The response among programmers honestly feels very bimodal. There seems to be the camp that just loves LLMs and have turned to Copilot for everything. Personally, I used it to mock unit tests and that's all I really trust it with. Once I get to a problem I can't easily solve it's something obscure enough that there isn't a lot of web traffic for it and Copilot falls over too, so I find myself rarely using it. Sometimes it's helpful as an intellisense, but a lot of the time it's too slow even for that.
Its value as a text generator or, god help us, a search engine, has also run thin for me. I don't ever use it. I still prefer my google searches and going directly to sites.
I actually don't think it is. I know some high performers who are absolutely in love with Copilot, so it's not just the poor devs. I honestly don't know what the difference is. Maybe it's workflow?
Its value as a text generator or, god help us, a search engine, has also run thin for me. I don't ever use it. I still prefer my google searches and going directly to sites.