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For building small to medium new projects with unfamiliar languages, stacks, and tools, this absolutely makes sense. On the other hand, I’ve struggled to get much value out of copilots when working on existing, medium to large, mature (ish) codebases, on stacks etc that I’m already familiar with. Copilots may be good at generating small, self contained blocks of new code, but they don’t really help at all with changes that touch a handful of places across an existing codebase in nontrivial ways. Still makes me feel conflicted that I’m not using the hot new thing though!  
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  1. @snarfed.org thanks for sharing that, I haven’t tried working that way. Some of these tools have a way to ingest all of your code and do bigger scale things like refactor. But I haven’t tried that. The main useful thing I get is “explain how to use this API to me” which is more of a new code situation.

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