Comment by Someone1234 | Hacker News Reader

Comment by Someone1234 | Hacker News Reader

Copilot for Visual Studio (i.e. not VS Code) is horribly broken, and even at $10/month it wasn't worth it, let alone $19/month. Considering that Visual Studio is used by enterprises mostly, I don't know how many will jump into this $19/month subscription until the product is much, much, better.

It isn't the "AI" side that is broken. It is just a buggy extension, crashes constantly, and even when it does give suggestions it takes far too long to do so harming your workflow. Check out the less than 2.5 star average reviews on the VS Marketplace:

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=GitHub.c...

Honestly if you're a Visual Studio developer, I'd say ChatGPT Plus for $20/month is better value than Copilot in its current form which is should be free while they iron out all the bugs. Or if you REALLY want to use Copilot, then you'll need to switch to VS Code instead since the extension in that at least works correctly.

What's kind of funny is, I've gone completely the other route... I've been using VS Code almost exclusively, even for a handful of .Net (Core/5+) projects. I will say the .Net extension for VS Code is lacking though, the conspiracy theorist in me thinks it's intentionally borked by MS. I find the experience is generally better for everything that isn't C#/.Net

I just literally setup Copilot, though haven't really used it yet. I also haven't worked much with ChatGPT, but may give that a try as well. I'm starting on a Rust project and really unfamiliar with the language, even after reading a couple books at this point. The learning curve has been steeper than other languages I've worked with, so willing to try the leg up approach at this point.

I've used Copilot for VSCode for a little over a week now and I can't say that it's "horribly broken" at all. I've had issues getting it activated but after that, it just works for me. I'd make sure you use the latest of both, VSCode and Copilot extension.

> Copilot for Visual Studio (i.e. not VS Code)

Sorry, I misread, my bad.

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