We just got a limited time access to GitHub copilot and copilot chat. It’s a lot “smarter” than I thought it would be. You still need to know how to ask a question and what questions to ask, but it will spit out very usable code.
This is the one technology that has made me rethink a lot of things.
This is the one technology that has made me rethink a lot of things.
Be interesting to try it. ChatGPT 4 sometimes give good coding answers, but half the time it invents libraries that don't exist, or code that looks ok but....
My favorite thing about GitHub copilot is that you can write a comment explaining what the next section of code is for and as soon as you complete the comment it will provide the code that meets the description. I use it with Powershell for our systems automation stuff.
You have to know what you are doing as occasionally it is wide of the mark, but for me I’d say that 90% of the time it is a huge time saver. It saves a huge amount of typing as you typically only need small tweaks to the code it generates.
Just for complete transparency here I should note that I do work for MS.
That said, vscode with GitHub copilot is probably the largest step change in productivity I have ever experienced.
I don’t know the subscription costs as I don’t work on the commercial side of things, but I can easily see how it could transform a teams’ productivity and for some would be well worth the subscription.
You have to know what you are doing as occasionally it is wide of the mark, but for me I’d say that 90% of the time it is a huge time saver. It saves a huge amount of typing as you typically only need small tweaks to the code it generates.
Just for complete transparency here I should note that I do work for MS.
That said, vscode with GitHub copilot is probably the largest step change in productivity I have ever experienced.
I don’t know the subscription costs as I don’t work on the commercial side of things, but I can easily see how it could transform a teams’ productivity and for some would be well worth the subscription.