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Copilot can't even suggest a single Ansible or Terraform task without suggesting invalid/unsupported options. I can't imagine how bad it is at doing anything actually complex with an actual programming language.
It also doesn’t know what’s going on a couple line before it, so say I am in a language that has options for functional styling using maps and I want to keep that flow going, it will start throwing for loops at you, so you end up having to rewrite it all anyway. I have find I end up spending more time writing the prompts then validating it did what I want correctly (normally not) than just looking at the docs and doing it myself, the bonus being I don’t have to reprompt it again later because now I know how to do it