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Cake day: February 26th, 2025

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  • What I’m referring to is the IDE integration, like an “enhanced” auto complete. It is actually less helpful for me than the normal auto complete. Most of the stuff it generates is either not what I want to do or it doesn’t follow the code style of the rest of the software. Mainly a combination of the two.

    I also briefly tried generating whole methods from prompts but that never resulted an adequate solution ever, so writing it myself is orders of magnitude faster than correcting the bullshit that Copilot vomits out.

    The best use I’ve found so far is to solve usability problems, that I can’t find an easy enough solution to in the docs. For example some time ago I had to create a recusive CTE in a Postgres query. So I condensed my issue down to “I have a table A with columns X and Y and a table B…” and so on and fed that to ChatGPT and applied the result to my specific problem. Turned out I had two of my parameters swapped in previous attempted so it helped be successfully. But that’s the only kind of usage I get out of it and it happens once in 1-3 months tops.




  • I can totally understand that. In case you still want to give it a chance, I can highly recommend EndeavorOS. It’s basically pre-styled, pure Arch. But it has a welcome dialog, where you have a warning banner at the top if you need to be careful regarding an update. This directly links you to their Gitlab and forum with the steps you’d need to take to not break anything. This saved me multiple times already and I never broke my system, despite not even reading the Arch RSS feed or changelogs.

    Besides the EndeavorOS forum is waaaay friendlier compared to the Arch one.