Comment by drrob

8 days ago

I've only recently begun using copilot auto-complete in Visual Studio using Claude (doing C# development/maintenance of three SaaS products). I've been a coder since 1999.

The suggestions are correct about 40% of the time, so I'm actually surprised when they're right, rather than becoming reliant on them. It saves me maybe 10 minutes a day.

The only part AI auto complete I found I really like is when I have a function call that takes like a dozen arguments, and the auto complete can just shove it all together for me. Such a nice little improvement.

  • My least favourite part of the auto complete is how wordy the comments it wants to create are. I never use the comments it suggests.

    • I have been begging Claude not to write comments at all since day 1 (it's in the docs, Claude.md, i say the words every session, etc) and it just insists anyway. Then it started deleting comments i wrote!

      Fucking robot lol

  • Do you mean suggesting arguments to provide based on name/type context?

    • Yeah, it usually gets the required args right based on various pieces of context. It have a big variation though between extension. If the extension can't pull context from the entire project (or at least parts of it) it becomes almost useless.

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