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