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Comment by jimmaswell | Hacker News Reader

> google for the names of functions

Copilot is a lifesaver here. I almost never have to google function names anymore because it just fills them in for me, while usually generating exactly the code I wanted around it.

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I've resisted co pilot and auto complete because when interview time comes and you have to write code outside of your toolset, you'll realize you haven't committed things so well to memory. This bit me earlier on in my career after working in visual studios for a long time. I now code almost exclusively in vim.

I'm not saying you shouldn't use it, but before you go into technical parts of interviews I would recommend you do some coding without all the bells and whistles tools.

Not saying that your advice in any way wrong, but it's a bit sad that the only thing holding people back from such a productivity multiplier, innovation or even completely new way of coding is the inane interview process of this industry...

The paradox of copilot is that anyone who is skilled enough that they can be responsibly trusted to use it doesn't need it.

Completely agree.

Why would you give up such big productivity multipliers just to make the rare event of interviewing a little easier? If an interview is coming up then just spend a few days practicing, or just don't - I've never had an interview go badly because I didn't memorize java.util.date.

If only there was a way to know which methods the object has. We could call such concept something like auto-discovery or magic-completion.

I use that too, but Copilot is just better much of the time.

Great. If i ever feel like my impostor syndrome could use a bump I'll be sure to throw Copilot into the mix.

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