A bit of a controversial opinion: to those who are defending CoPilot saying it "boosted my productivity" and would miss it if it is discontinued, maybe you are not a productive developer to begin with. I fail to see how searching the same snippets on Google or saving commonly used macros in your favorite editor would not yield the same amount of productivity. I have used CoPilot for several months and I actively stopped using it, because I was afraid I will be dependent on it, and it would actually reduce my ability to do critical code-building. I'm happy without it - sure it takes some micro seconds more to type out my code instead of autogenerating it, but I feel much more self confident in my own coding skills.
CoPilot is a great research work - it is indeed spectacular to see how pre-training can achieve such impressive code completion results. However, in my honest opinion, it should not be a tool for a serious developer.
CoPilot is a great research work - it is indeed spectacular to see how pre-training can achieve such impressive code completion results. However, in my honest opinion, it should not be a tool for a serious developer.