Are folks using #ai copilots for generating code successfully? Mine gets confused on syntax a bunch but it's a local model which is general rather than code specific. Like I wonder if I am prompting it poorly or something
@mauve they're great for generating bugs you won't know how to fix later
@cwebber Is this from personal experience and finding out or second hand from what others have said?
@mauve From reading multiple papers studying the effects of code assistants
@cwebber Interesting. My main frustratiom is thatthe code it write just isn't anywhere near the quality I need and it generates stuff that barely makes sense. I've mostly been exploring this as an alternative to speech to text coding and for doing some quick formatting but so far it's just sucked. Even very junior devs need less hand holding and reviews
@fleeky I only use locally runnable models so I have no clue how well it compares to the big corpo ones. 🤷 Sadly the code Ibwas using this on is a proprietary codebase so I can't share it. I ended uo deleting and rewriting myself like three times. It was some pretty basic cli arg parsing code tho
@mauve i havent been able to try it personally but this person made there own fine tuned model for godot coding and supposedly it has good results.
basically if you want good local results you probably have to fine tune some model , boo ..
