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For me APIs are actually one of the places it performs the worst. Copilot is like having an inexperienced yet annoyingly optimistic pair programmer. The code it generates appears conceivable in some hypothetical universe. No guarantee it's this one though.

Remember it doesn't actually know an API or how it should be used: it's putting things together to look like typical code. For me that has meant difficult to spot bugs like linking up incorrect variables from the rest of my code.

I wish it could integrate the first SO answer to a generated question, because I always end up there anyway having to fix things.

>>janto+(OP)
That's a bummer. I just got whitelisted and was hoping it could save me time with some APIs where they only have code in X language or curl and I have to work backwards if I run into any issues.

>>janto+(OP)
I think my experience has been sort of between you two. Maybe 1/3 times it's spot on. The rest of the time, there is some minor tweak I need to make (it gets a parameter or variable name wrong). I've yet to hit cases where the code it generates looks right but doesn't run as expected, thankfully.

I've only had it for about a week now but overall I'm happy with it. None of the code I'm writing is crazy cutting-edge stuff and in aggregate I'm sure it saves me more time than takes, including the time I spend reviewing and potentially changing the generated code.