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Currently working on a pandas personal project (which I have only a little bit of experience with from before) and it’s easily 10x better than googling. I ask it a question to plot something simple and it spits code out which very rarely doesn’t work. I’d easily pay $20 for this… but it’s the free model that does it.

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I don't doubt your experience at all, but I wonder what I am doing wrong. I tried to use Copilot to help me learn Rust, but I gave up because almost every suggestion has caused compile time issues or runtime panic.

Just an anecdote, but I recently used LLM's as part of learning helmfile/helm/k8s. Mostly i used the LLM to help me find the right documentation. I know what concept I'm looking for, but i don't know what they call it in these systems. I suppose critically I never really asked it to write code for me, I asked it to help me find the concepts to read documentation about.

I haven't actually tried copilot so I can't comment directly on that, but I have found the general space of LLM's to be useful.

It might be that there’s simply so much more content on the internet about pandas that the LLM internalized all of it. Rust is a much more complex language with less written about it. IOW my use case is a perfect match for the tool, yours is less so and there isn’t anything more to it.

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