Github Copilot is actually good

Day 336 / 366

Just 30 days to go. We are in the final month!

My opinion about AI and LLMs has shifted so much this year. At the start of the year, I was all for AI. I knew it was going to be the next big thing. In fact, the idea behind this blog initially was that I would write about AI each day. But soon I found out that AI was not interested enough to write a daily blog, hence I pivoted to just writing about whatever I felt like.

By the time I built my in-office team, I had made up my mind that AI was all hype and no substance. ChatGPT was banned in my office, I did not want any intern using it. I wanted them to learn things on their own.

I got introduced to Github Copilot, the extension that adds AI features to your Code Editor while working on a client project. And soon I was hooked. As a senior dev, I could see how it could help in making your productivity 2–3x easily. When the project ended, I purchased Copilot myself. It was part of my daily coding process.

I am done keeping my interns away from AI. Instead, I want to train them in how to use AI in a better way, so that they keep learning and at the same time increase their productivity as well.

Yesterday my subscription ran out, and I have been trying to purchase it since then but for some reason, no Indian cards are working on Github. And coding now just feels so slow. It’s like you have been using a Macbook for a while and now you have to go back to an old Dell laptop.

Fortunately, I have a Cursor subscription. Cursor is an IDE forked from VSCode that has loads of AI features built into it. I don’t have any experience with it, but I guess now is as good a time as any to try it out.