Copilot definitely isn't a magic 'do my job' button, and likely won't ever be, or that job would simply no longer exist. 

It does take care of a lot of the busy work though, and isn't just for Intellisense like code suggestions - you can happily converse with it in the chat window about high level topics and refine the context incrementally, generate boilerplate json/bicep/scripts from a few lines of prose, or highlight a non-trivial block of existing code and ask it to explain/summarise or find issues.

While it's not HAL 9000 I reckon it comes pretty close, and quite importantly hasn't tried to murder me (yet).

Before my trial I was skeptical about how much value it would provide, but was pleasantly surprised enough to hand over 15 dollarydoos each month. 😎

cheers,

Tony

On 30/07/2024 08:06, Greg Keogh via ozdotnet wrote:

When I first saw the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey in 1969 I was fascinated by HAL (I was clearly destined to work in IT!), and now 55 years later I'd like to be able to sit down with HAL and explain some complex business requirement to him, converse like professionals and weigh-up the pros and cons of different platforms and languages based upon his world of experience and get him to code like a 1000x developer and generate a complete working skeleton of the required product. When will I see that? I'm a bit disappointed so far.

Oh well, back to coding with my Copilot buddy.

Greg K

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