About how well Copilot works in daily coding and how much context it uses.
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Yes 65 (58%)Not sure 25 (22%)No 22 (20%)
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
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About how well Copilot works in daily coding and how much context it uses.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
I think it's 20/80 for me. 20% of the time, it produces working code. 80% of the time, it produces errors.
Sometimes it's just more annoying to have it enabled.
I'm not going to crown Copilot yet until it can read the whole code base.