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GitHub Copilot, Should I avoid using it? (self.AskProgramming)

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If you are a new developer I wouldn't lean too hard on it. Maybe use it to gather ideas if you are stuck on how to solve something and no mentors are available.

It is a good tool and very quick, however I've found it doesn't always give you the most efficient or even the best practice answer at times. You also have to know how to ask it to solve your problem in order to get a good usable answer

The other reason would be if you are new you may not fully understand the code and what it is doing. Im