I've been using them in combination and that has been a real boost to me! Co-pilot is great for ideas. Sometimes I want an explanation of what something is doing or to ask about methods for accomplishing a certain task etc. I'm just using ChatGPT in the web browser at the moment, but in the IDE itself would be fantastic, though at the moment I don't feel confident about giving an API key to a 3rd party extension that I don't fully trust.
for code completion copilot is significantly better,
for high level api exploration of reasonably popular frameworks openai can offer something different, at times very valuable despite the very frequent hallucinations.
on the other hand sometimes I re-appreciate good old documentation; openai here has a psychological effect of removing 'api-fear'
I've been using them in combination and that has been a real boost to me! Co-pilot is great for ideas. Sometimes I want an explanation of what something is doing or to ask about methods for accomplishing a certain task etc. I'm just using ChatGPT in the web browser at the moment, but in the IDE itself would be fantastic, though at the moment I don't feel confident about giving an API key to a 3rd party extension that I don't fully trust.
for code completion copilot is significantly better,
for high level api exploration of reasonably popular frameworks openai can offer something different, at times very valuable despite the very frequent hallucinations.
on the other hand sometimes I re-appreciate good old documentation; openai here has a psychological effect of removing 'api-fear'
I love the conversations about the code with ChatGPT though.