> So much of it, too much! You might want to use another LLM to understand the code that you’ve written.<p>Humans write too much code at times too. The difference is when I tell a developer they need to be more concise it’s a learning process and takes days per feature to complete and months for the developer to improve significantly. With copilot you can literally just tell it to be more concise and it will do it, straight away, no fussy behavior, no denial, no blaming coworkers, no need to adjust, it just does it.<p>The author would know this if they tried using the tools. But this is just a grump being grumpy like people still claiming that IDE’s cause brain rot and that assembly is the only “true way to program”.
Copilot is just a tool, but it’s an incredibly performance boosting tool, and it doesn’t really have any significant learning code. People should just adopt it and move on with their lives.
I don't use the autocomplete option of Copilot as that's too annoying and distracting, BUT I do use the chat from time to time instead of googling for stuff. Once I'm done I hide the panel in Rider/VSCode/Zed/Visual Studio etc. until I need it again. As I've written in comments before, I think using Copilot is good when you're working on something new or you know exactly what you want, but perhaps maybe the approach you've used before can be improved (or you think it can be improved). In those cases Copilot can be a powerful exploratory tool.
This redirects to google.com, which I initially thought was the point of the title: a joke. But it seems to redirect only coming from HN.<p>The actual link is <a href="https://macwright.com/2024/11/20/not-using-copilot" rel="nofollow">https://macwright.com/2024/11/20/not-using-copilot</a>
I stopped using GitHub copilot. I really didn’t like my train of thought being interrupted.<p>I have heard more comprehensive “leave the thinking to us” tools like cursor give better results.<p>Personally I think if your tools or projects are so dull that you require an AI to use them, perhaps you need sharper tools or more interesting projects.
One of the reasons I left github for gitlab. But FWIW, I use emacs and vim for my editing, so I doubt those will every link into copilot. But for me, all these new tools do is slow me down.<p>But git use is rather rudimentary anyway :)