Tarah Wheeler
For most moderately (not expertly) skilled programmers, is Github Copilot better or worse at suggesting relevant and useful code than ChatGPT? Trying to figure out which I want to use for a Python project.
Jun 11, 2023 at 9:44pmWeb
Show threadNoah GibbsJun 11, 2023

@Tarah I find that ChatGPT's average-quality response is significantly better.

But Copilot gives you more responses, more quickly, which is really helpful as realtime autocomplete.

So Copilot needs a lot more guiding, but can do very well if you're willing to do that.

(Caveat: I've used both, but not a huge amount of either.)

Neither is going to give you awesome final-quality code as a rule, but both are fine.

Show threadTarah WheelerJun 11, 2023
@codefolio This is an extremely helpful answer; thank you very much!
Show threadCiechom  Jun 11, 2023
@codefolio @Tarah Wow what an amazing times we live in. (I know there is a lot of really bad stuff, but let me enjoy little things like this)
Show threadThomas Lee ✅ Jun 12, 2023
@Tarah how about doing it yourself? :-) personally, I found #ChatGPT to be pretty good at writing code that does not work. In my cases, the code just did not work. And in some cases, the bugs were subtle.
Show threadAlexJun 12, 2023
@DoctorDNS for short well defined problems it works ok. I used it to do the initial data cleaning on a bunch of git stuff which I then cleaned up and made a lot faster. For usage of an unfamiliar API though it often beats the 'ole stackoverflow copy/paste and tweak approach at least to get you started. I've found using it for code review can also be beneficial although I think it will be some time before it can outperform a competent engineer who's already familiar with a code base.
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Show threadBjörnJun 12, 2023
@Tarah Does codepilot work better because of the work it copies from?