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Wait, that's a thing??? I can earn programmer money just by using copy & paste??? Maybe it's time I changed jobs...
I spent years getting great with powershell so I can now confidently copy code out of chatgpt. Chatgpt's ability to spit out close to correct code faster than I can type it is amazing, but useless if you don't understand what the hell it's trying to do.
Pretty much this, it's the one use case for copilot, I know what I want to type anyway and copilot is usually close enough that 2 edits is faster than typing the whole thing and better for rsi.
But sometimes Copilot just uses too much words to present the answer, so I use ChatGPT which can be personalized.
(Maybe it is possible with Copilot, too, maybe I have to ask how to do it)
I find the opposite, chatgpt (free version at least) gives all the explanation and stuff then a code block, copilot (not Microsoft the GitHub one) just prints the boilerplate directly in the editor then you press tab to accept.
Just tell gpt to be brief in your prompt