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Comment by TruthWillHurt | Hacker News Reader

I really don't like it.

I find I spend my time reviewing Copilot suggestions (which are mostly wrong) rather than thinking about code and actually doing the work.

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I turned off auto-suggest and that made a huge difference. Now I'll use it when I know I'm doing something repetitive that it'll get easily, or if I'm not 100% sure what I want to do and I'm curious what it suggests. This way I get the help without having it interrupt my thoughts with its suggestions.

How do you do that?

In intellij (which is where I use it), section 8 of this document explains how. I'm assuming there's an equivalent for vscode.

When you disable auto complete, it can still be fired via a keyboard shortcut, which is how I use it.

https://github.com/github/copilot-docs/blob/main/docs/jetbra...

According to StackOverflow, VS Code users can use alt+\ to trigger the suggestion and disable auto complete with this:

    "editor.inlineSuggest.enabled": false

https://stackoverflow.com/a/71224912/1048433

I have to toggle it on and off. I find that if I'm thinking about what to write it is absurdly distracting to see a suggestion, which is usually wrong, because the suggestion steals my focus. On the other hand when I don't really need to think that much Copilot often gives valuable suggestions that I accept.

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