[ant_li0n]

I feel like using copilot chat in my editor has really been a boost for me, in the way you describe. But it's also super janky. Like lots of times I'll be having a conversation about my code, and then I say, "what if I were to make this change here" and it comes back, "Sorry, I don't have access to your files. Can you paste the code in?" And I'm like, WE WERE JUST TALKING ABOUT IT. It's like the file fell out of context, but it didn't tell me. Sometimes it's hard to get the current file back in context.

Or I'll go to great pains to be explicit about what I want (no code snippets unless I ask for them specifically, responses hundreds of lines long with dozens of steps it wants me to take), and for a little while it does that, and then boom, back to barfing out code snippets.

People talk about this tool as some kind of miracle worker and to me while it is helpful it is also a source of major frustration for me, because it cannot do these most basic things. When I hear about people talking about how amazing LLMs are, I'm extremely confused. What am I doing wrong? I really would like to know.