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I set up CoPilot with neovim and am using it on a few projects. The domain and architectural style of these projects isn't common. Asking it to generate entire functions seems not very useful.
But, when asked to either suggest the next line of code or complete a partially-typed line, it has been pretty useful if it is following a pattern established in the code already. Here are two examples:
Testing:
It's pretty good at this part of it as long as there is a pattern
Repetitive stuff based on common things:
So, asking it to come up with something out of thin air is usually worthless, but it has been helpful at automating repetitive tasks that are somewhat small and not really places where a library or abstraction would be better.