Github Copilot + Laravel Discussion

I just got access to the technical preview of Github Copilot today and wanted to see who else has access, and how you use it if you do have access. I tested it in a brand new Laravel app and it seems to do a good job of the bootstrapping for the starting points of a given application, but I haven't tested it much. The more verbose you make the comments the better suggestions it seems to give, but I haven't started testing it much in existing projects / code.

So what are your thoughts on Copilot if you have access to it? how do you use it? Do you find it helpful?

ItsClassified

3 years ago

Level 4

I LOVE GitHub Copilot! I mainly use it for simple stuff that I don't want to remember and I would normaly google. Just an easy comment and let the magic do its thing.

It's also nice if you have to do a lot of repetitive stuff, like if you are refactoring code, and you need to refactor 5 classes for example, after you have done the first, copilot will hint you for the next few classes.

Or a really basic example, when you have some private $variables, and you want to create getters, just say //getters and copilot will create your getters, same for the constructor. Its mainly those things i use it for.

Complexer problems I rather do myself because that way you actually know what you're doing, instead of yeh it works its fine :P

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