I have been using Cody in VSCode for a couple of months, and I am getting a ton of value out of it.
The key things I love are:
1. It really knows how to summarise a code blocks, this can be helpful to review code in other projects, or provide a refresher to your own, it misses very little!
2. It is very smart when it comes to filling in gaps in log statements, error messages or code comments.
3. Copy and paste is mostly dead, given a small hint it fills in the gaps for common patterns and is way less error-prone, and follows my prevailing style once the project is up and running.
4. Writing tests, this really surprised me but a lot of trivial, and some not so trivial ones are generated by Cody.
Things which annoy me when using Cody:
1. Suggests when writing in markdown are not very helpful, most are wordy, and always positive, it is almost impossible to get a negative or even snarky sentence out of it...
2. Inline suggestions are a bit annoying at times, it really doesn't "know your code", or that of your libraries, for common std library calls it is great, but anything more complex or obscure it is mostly wrong.
3. It is somewhat bolted onto VSCode using some creative solutions, with VSCode only allowing more fit for purpose APIs to be used by GitHub Copilot, which is sad.
Overall it is doing a lot of the heavy lifting turning my code into English, and either entirely building tests, or fleshing out enough for me to just tweak the code a little so big from me.
The key things I love are:
1. It really knows how to summarise a code blocks, this can be helpful to review code in other projects, or provide a refresher to your own, it misses very little!
2. It is very smart when it comes to filling in gaps in log statements, error messages or code comments.
3. Copy and paste is mostly dead, given a small hint it fills in the gaps for common patterns and is way less error-prone, and follows my prevailing style once the project is up and running.
4. Writing tests, this really surprised me but a lot of trivial, and some not so trivial ones are generated by Cody.
Things which annoy me when using Cody:
1. Suggests when writing in markdown are not very helpful, most are wordy, and always positive, it is almost impossible to get a negative or even snarky sentence out of it...
2. Inline suggestions are a bit annoying at times, it really doesn't "know your code", or that of your libraries, for common std library calls it is great, but anything more complex or obscure it is mostly wrong.
3. It is somewhat bolted onto VSCode using some creative solutions, with VSCode only allowing more fit for purpose APIs to be used by GitHub Copilot, which is sad.
Overall it is doing a lot of the heavy lifting turning my code into English, and either entirely building tests, or fleshing out enough for me to just tweak the code a little so big from me.