[ementally]

Copilot

https://github.com/microsoft/litebox/blob/main/.github/copil...

[pjmlp]

To be expected, given how many organisations now require employees to use AI if they want to meet their OKRs, especially all that sell AI tools.

[outofpaper]

What's dumb, on top of everything, is needing to store non special standard operating procedures in specific AI folders and files when wanting to work with AI tooling.

[viraptor]

It doesn't say much really. At this point we can assume almost every project has some generated code in it. Unless you're sure that every single author hates the idea and there are no external contributions. Agent configuration just makes it clear.

[embedding-shape]

> Extremely simple changes do not require explicit unit tests.

I haven't used Copilot much, because people keep saying how bad it is, but generally if you add escape hatches like this without hard requirements of when the LLM can take them, they won't follow that rule in a intuitive way most of the time.

[pjmlp]

It is kind of alright, I use mostly on VS when coding C# or C++, for code completions, error analysis, check code quality and such.

As agent, or writing everything for me, not yet.

[sandos]

Yeah, I tried various very sane-looking instrucions file when starting to use copilot 6 months ago. Turned out it was not really useful. It mostly follows the rules anyway, but it also often forgot to. So turns out, especially with the fast turnaround with models today, it was better to just forego these instructions files.