My 24 hour experiment with copilot is over.

[grumpygamer@mastodon.gamedev.place]

My 24 hour experiment with copilot is over. It does suggest some interesting completions but I spend too much mental energy seeing if it's right and it's a UI/hover mess that's too distracting.

I'm back to being 100% AI free.

That said, VSCode is a good c++ IDE, much better then I thought. Not as good as Xcode, but very workable. The thing I was looking for was break-points and stepping into code and it does it.

[noodlemaz@mstdn.games]

@grumpygamer perhaps genAI..? Don't map apps and spellcheck and all that shiz have various AI bits

It's not all terrible
But the generative stuff... Yes

[bithive@social.tchncs.de]

@grumpygamer to be fair. Copilot is the worst of the bunch

[edchivers@dice.camp]

@grumpygamer I've tried using Copilot with Python, as it's "encouraged" in my workplace, but as you've found, it keeps producing generic and boring code that is *almost* right but needs proof-reading.

Just for "fun" I asked it to produce some code to print out all primes from 0 to an input number. It made code that worked, but was slow. After I'd tweaked it, it ran about ten times faster for primes up to 10000. I don't think I'll keep using it somehow...

[warhaggis@mstdn.ca]

@grumpygamer It's technically another IDE suggestion, but VSCodium is the non-proprietary parts of VSCode (similar to running Chromium in lieu of Chrome). You can point it to the normal Microsoft marketplace trivially.

I think it would not have any of the A"I" features in it

[sergio_101@social.sixdegreesofohio.com]

@grumpygamer @glamcode

I still use AI as an agent when I know what I need to do looks like, and I don’t feel like typing boilerplate.

For completion, it’s too disruptive.