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After I have been using tabnine and Grammarly for quite some time, I thought I follow this years' hype and give GitHub Codepilot a try, before eventually considering chatGPT.

Added Copilot to my IDE, proceeded to extend behavioral test descriptions in JavaScript.

Copilot suggests the most redundant and irrelevant inline comments I can imagine. They would be a legitimate target of criticism in every code review.

Wasn't it supposed to add some code that's actually useful? Well, tabnine and JetBrains IDEA annotations already did that anyway.

What did I miss?

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    Well, Copilot sucks ass from what I can tell

    ChatGPT on the other hand is extremely impressive. If they had a coding assitant, that might actually deliver on its promise
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    Asked chatGPT some coding and web dev questions. Mostly answered with common sense knowledge and best practice, mostly true, somehow irrelevant, often missing the point - much like search engine results and actual people - and sometimes it's so close to some tutorial / blog post / StackOverflow answer, they can try hard to repeat that the openAI chatbot does "no plagiarism", but they will have to repeat that when scrutinized in court by copyright lawyers someday.
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