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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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quantadev ◴[] No.44371053[source]
I love Copilot in VSCode. I always select model "Claude Sonnet 3.7", when in Copilot since it lets me choose the LLM. What I love about Copilot is the tight integration with VSCode. I can just ask it to do something and it relies on the intelligence of Claude to get the right code generated, and then all Copilot is really doing is editing my code for me, reading whatever code Claude tells it to, to build context, etc.
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KoolKat23 ◴[] No.44371099[source]
That's a different, more useable copilot.
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quantadev ◴[] No.44371920[source]
That's why I said "in VSCode" because I have no idea what this guy is running, but it's almost a certainty the problem isn't copilot but it's a bad LLM and/or his bad prompt.
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1. kemotep ◴[] No.44372007[source]
The Copilot integrated with Microsoft 365 doesn’t have a model switcher it just is what it is. You are talking about a completely different product that Microsoft calls the same names.
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2. quantadev ◴[] No.44372541[source]
I'll say it for the third time: "in VSCode". There's no ambiguity about which Copilot that is.
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3. willhslade ◴[] No.44372621[source]
VSCode Copilot or Copilot Chat?
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4. quantadev ◴[] No.44373264{3}[source]
imo, any VSCode user needs both extensions: "GitHub Copilot" for inline completions, and "GitHub Copilot Chat" for interactive, multi-turn coding chat/agent.
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