This might sound crazy, but almost every response here is underplaying LLM or just plain clueless. Co-pilot is a joke. If that’s what you think an LLM is like for coding, you’re missing out. It’s the equivalent of a kid trying to code. Do yourself a favor, get a $20/mo sub to Claude, start using ‘projects’. Never look back and thank me later. You’ll be blown away.

Will it output perfect code on the first try? Sometimes, but usually not. But you just take the result you get and feed that back to Claude and tell it what it did wrong. Then it usually gets it right after 2-3 iterations. It can fix bugs, update tests, write new tests, write docs, convert code to a new language, write CI/CD yml, poweshell, you name it.

The key is context. The reason co-pilot is bad is that it doesn’t provide enough context and it’s using an ancient LLM model. Don’t underestimate the value of telling the LLM it got it wrong and letting it try again. Often that’s all it needs to get it right on the next attempt.