It's good at writing new code, with sufficient prompting. But the big open question as of now for engineering orgs is - can it edit existing code like developers, just by instructions. Is there any hands on experience anyone has on copilot-x?
Copilot without -x does this relatively well. But it's a hands-on process. I can't just give it some source files and say "go". But it can easily make you 10x. I often spend more time tab-completing than writing.
I'm still trying to figure out how to do this. Copilot is extremely helpful. But more often than not, it suggests completions which would steer the project in another direction.
It is extremely good once the code has been organised and an overall structure exists. But until then it can be a distraction.
How are you guys enjoying copilot? For me, it wastes time so often. It blocked my editor auto importing functionality and times where I really have some easy suggestion that I need, maybe 50% of the time it doesn’t suggest the right thing.
I'm sorry but that's just too hard to believe. Even if it was a perfect reasoning/coding engine the fact that it's context is so limited guarantees it will get stuff wrong.
I'm a fan of copilot - but no way in hell is it a 10x tool. It's probably 1.2x - which is a huge gain for such a cheap tool.
