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That’s what many people do as well, I feel. Not joking.

That aside, copilot works well as a proactive search tool for idioms, templates, and boilerplate. It can also do things like build the invocation of a CLI tool, with arguments, from a comment line. To me, if nothing more, is the next step in the use of reference. I started with man, .hlp files and books… then progressively replaced them with Google because it was faster even if more noisy… now I use copilot first.



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