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I’ve been trying to use Copilot for a few days to get some help writing against code stored on GitHub.

Copilot has been pretty useless. It couldn’t maintain context for more than two exchanges.

Copilot: here’s some C code to do that

Me: convert that to $OTHER_LANGUAGE

Copilot: what code would you like me to convert?

Me: the code you just generated

Copilot: if you can upload a file or share a link to the code, I can help you translate it …

It points me in a direction that’s a minimum of 15 degrees off true north (“true north” being the goal for which I am coding), usually closer to 90 degrees. When I ask for code, it hallucinates over half of the API calls.

>>jagged+(OP)
Be more methodical, it isn’t magic: https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2025/05/13/2230

>>rcarmo+kr
I’m sure you have no idea what my method is. Besides, this whole “you’re holding it wrong” mentality isn’t productive - our technology should be adapting to us, we shouldn’t need to adapt ourselves to it.

Anyway, I can just use another LLM that serves me better.