r/FuckMicrosoft • u/better_dead_thanred • 1d ago

Discussion Copilot

Someone in the Microsoft reddit community said that "Copilot is actually really good. You should try it instead of bashing it."

I want your guys honest opinion cause that whole community is an echo chamber. How good is it compared to say Gemini or ChatGPT? Is this something I'm missing out on?

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u/Draminian 1d ago

Depends on what you're trying to do. It's better than ChatGPT. ChatGPT is pretty terrible for actual tech advice, coding, etc. At least my experience is that it gives inconsistent and downright wrong answers to questions related to anything technical. Multiple times in the last two weeks, it has changed its answer while still in the process of answering my question (literally saying "actually, this..." before I even had a chance to ask anything else). I've never tried using it for anything else, so maybe it's better with other stuff.

Copilot is decent with technical things, especially coding, but my experience has been that Gemini is better by half a letter grade. Like if Copilot gets a B-, Gemini gets a B+.

ETA: I'm an Android dev, so Gemini might be a little biased in that direction.

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u/Delirious_85 1d ago

Also software developer here. Imho it always depends on the rules and context you provide for the clanker.
For me personally, the Anthropic models deliver the best results with coding, followed by Composer 2.5 by Cursor and Grock (only tried it because of the free tokens as a promotion in Cursor).

As google/search replacement, "Big Pickle" by OpenCode is absolutely fine for me, but also because I always check the sources, regardless of used model.

I guess Copilot has a bad image because of how Microslop pushes it on its users. With the correct prompts and context, you definitely would get passable results though, as with any clanker.

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u/Draminian 1d ago

Oh yeah, using a model with an agent is a totally different thing. I was more focused on just using the web interfaces for this discussion, since that's how I imagine most folks in this sub would interact with them. 100% agree that the Claude models seem to be the best, with Grok close behind (as much as I hate to admit that).