I don't think they are contradictory at all. Aside from the basic "it has value, just less than $10/month" option, they may also just be interested in the tech and are evaluating it in actual use, etc.

GPT-3 and AI-enhanced code completion has had a ton of hype going on, up to and including claims that software development as a job is at existential risk. Using Copilot non-stop to investigate and understand why there's so much hype and coming away with the opinion that it's not worthy of $10/mo is not contradictory. Would you rather someone who hasn't used a product extensively make value claims?

You overlooked an even bigger contradiction! Namely:

> The biggest problem I've had is not that it doesn't write correctly, it's that it think it knows how and then produce good looking code at a glance but with wrong logic.

I cannot rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that would provoke such a statement.

EDIT: upon careful rereading, I think I misunderstood. The intended meaning is likely closer to: the problem is less so that codepilot produces incorrect code and more so that its incorrect code appears correct at first glance.

You have my sincerest apologies. I leave this thread intact as a testament to my hair-trigger snark.

Not OP - I use it non-stop for boiler plate filling as well.

I wouldn't use it for anything other than that, so I would say it's worth honestly at max $1/month.

I've had Copilot enabled since early beta. I think it has saved me ... 15 minutes of typing in total? A few times it has caught on to a repeating pattern and filled a tedious bit of [({}{})] -style javascript correctly.

Most of the things it does for me I could replace with a library of snippets if I could be bothered to set one up.

Not really worth a monthly cost equivalent to, say, Disney+ - which I use tens of hours every month just by myself.

If my employer paid for it, I wouldn't scoff at it, but I'm not paying a cent of my own money for it.

They gave it a fair shake, decided the price wouldn't be worth it. It's not inherently contradictory

I would consider it contradictory if they decided to continue using it while paying that price and unsatisfied

It's a trial run and the value isn't there for them

My interpretation is that it's fun to use so they use it a lot but not altogether useful (eta: and/or necessary): they didn't miss it on work projects.

It looks like they used it "non-stop" on hobby projects to see what's capable of

It's an extension... You'd have to go out of your way to disable it. It's also completely optional so it's (almost) only additive. The only harm is sometimes it generates suggestions faster than I can press tab to fix my spacing

At first, I read it as if he thinks it's worth way more.