Refactoring and rewriting existing code is one of the stronger points of Copilot. Generated comments are more like good and useful guidelines. It can be 100% accurate for a complex code, but fail on more simple one (and vice versa). It's important to note that the accuracy of the generated comment does not depend on the size or complexity of the code. About 80%-90% of the time it is, but there are cases where it can generate a misleading comment which would make more damage than help if left unchecked. Copilot's suggestions in this case are OK and mostly true, but I do need to read and try to understand the exact meaning of the generated comment, then run through the code and see if the suggestion was right. I only need to open a comment on top of the code, or start a new docblock comment line, and the suggested description is generated. There are parts of the code which I remember being exceptionally complex to write and optimize, which inevitably produced code which is difficult to understand now, 2 years from the time the code was written. I am in the process of revisiting and refactoring some old PHP 7.4 code to PHP 8.2, along with the upgrade of Symfony and PHPUnit. The first thing which Copilot does good is writing comments for the already existing code. You can simply feel the architecture behind the AI in every single code or comment suggestion it makes. It does many things good (or good enough), but not great.

So, the question for each subscription service is - is it worth it? Here are my impressions which you may find useful.įirst of all, let's set something straight - whatever Copilot can do, it can't be classified as great.

When you add subscriptions which are not work related, it can become a bit overwhelming.

priced at about $10 to $25 a month, the costs quickly pile up. While the price tag isn't anything special ($10 a month or $100 a year), when you consider the fact that there are many tools, services, IDE plugins. After the initial promo year of free access, GitHub released a commercial version of Copilot a while ago.

Download github copilot phpstorm