Copilot has so far been pretty useful to me as a "sometimes smarter intellisense". It'll frequently correctly guess the arguments I want for a function (and their types), and every once in a while I'll type `a.map(` and it'll auto-fill the transformation code I was planning on writing.
The simpler the task I'm trying to do, the better chance it has of being correct, but that's also the part where I feel I get the most benefit from it, because I already thoroughly understand exactly what I'm writing, why I'm writing it, and what it needs to look like, and Copilot sometimes saves me the 5-30s it takes to write it. Over a day, that adds up and I can move marginally faster.
It's definitely not a 100x improvement (or even a 10x improvement), but I'm glad to have it.
If this works as well, locally, to escape the privacy issue, I'll be thrilled. Checking it out.
> to escape the privacy issue
Genuine question, do you not use GitHub for things other than copilot? It seems to me either the privacy issues of copilot are overblown or the privacy issues of GitHub itself are underblown, because they both end up with basically the same data.
In this context I think it's important to note the distinction between "Copilot for Individuals" and "Copilot for Business", because for twice the money you potentially get a lot more privacy:
> What data does Copilot for Individuals collect?
> [...] Depending on your preferred telemetry settings, GitHub Copilot may also collect and retain the following, collectively referred to as “code snippets”: source code that you are editing, related files and other files open in the same IDE or editor, URLs of repositories and files path.
> What data does Copilot for Business collect?
> [...] GitHub Copilot transmits snippets of your code from your IDE to GitHub to provide Suggestions to you. Code snippets data is only transmitted in real-time to return Suggestions, and is discarded once a Suggestion is returned. Copilot for Business does not retain any Code Snippets Data.