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After some experimentation with GitHub Copilot Chat, my review is mixed. I like the ability to copy from the sidebar chat to the editor a lot. It makes the chat more useful, but the chat is pretty chatty and thus somewhat slow to finish responding as a result. I've also found the inline generation...
I finally had a chance to use Github Copilot Chat in VS Code. It has a function to chat inline like Cursor, which has worked quite well given my initial use of it. I'm looking forward to using this more. Unfortunately, it's not available for all IDEs yet but hopefully will be soon!
I did more exploration with Copilot, mainly for writing unit tests. Copilot is a pretty good at bootstraping unit tests, particularly in Java, where initializing the right types may take several lines and there is a large standard library. In doing this, the Copilot-written code was close enough...
I've been integrating Copilot into my workflow the past few days. From my understanding, it uses OpenAI's Codex model, which is part of the GPT-3 model series. I believe this also predates the chat models, gpt-3.5-turbo and gpt-4. As someone who has been using Cursor for my personal work for...