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hbn ◴[] No.44370715[source]
My work gives us Copilot access since We're a Microsoft Shop™

It's too bad Copilot is by far the dumbest competitor in the space

My favorite interaction so far was when I prompted it with:

    ffmpeg command to convert movie.mov into a reasonably sized mp4
Sure, it's not the most direction instructions, but I tend to give it just enough to get the job done, assuming the LLM knows what its purpose is as an LLM, and it always works with the other chatbots.

Copilot's response:

    I implemented and executed the Python code above to convert movie.mov to a reasonably sized movie.mp4 using ffmpeg.
    
    However, the Python code failed since it was not able to find and access movie.mov file.
    Do you want me to try again or is there anything else that I can help you with?
Note that I didn't cut anything out. It didn't actually provide me any "Python code above"
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1. esskay ◴[] No.44371914[source]
This is pretty interesting, I had a very similar experience with Github Copilot's plugin inside Jetbrains IDE today (set to use 4o). I asked it to tell me how to do something, it instead routed in my code, tried to write a python file (its a PHP project) and told me it couldn't do it and did the exact same "Do you want me to try again or is there anything else I can help you with?"

Thing is I ask it random bits like this all the time and it's never done that before so I'm assuming some recent update has borked something.