Ask HN: CoPilot or such users, give us a review of your experience using it.

It's just like ChatGPT. Good for getting started on something. Especially popular technology. It generates well enough, it understands your context well enough to make useful suggestions.

It struggles with complex concepts and does offer nonsense. (I try to avoid the word hallucinations because that has a meaning that implies agency.)

I'd say the mean acceptance rate of its suggestions is about 50%.

It doesn't do well with new technology. I'm experimenting with bedrock, openai, and langchain. Its suggestions are borderline annoying.

It's autopilot on steroids. Ignore the bad suggestions, use the good ones. Increase your WPM for $19/month.

You can ask it to explain a method you don't understand. People say it makes mistakes, but it makes far less mistakes than I do.

I like Copilot and will use it forever unless something better comes along. It rarely provides solutions to me, but very often it predicts what I’m already going to type and saves me from having to actually type it. These little “auto completes” add up and it definitely saves me a significant amount of time over the course of a month, easily enough where it’s worth the cost!

I've been using copilot and chatGPT for active development.

It's great for generating boilerplate.

Chatgpt is excellent for explaining the details of things like configuration options.

I still write most of the non-boilerplate code myself.