Is Github Copilot useful for developers?

I am a developer working mainly with Go and PHP on a daily basis. This past weekend I got invited to the Github Copilot Technical Preview and decided to spend my entire weekend testing it out. I know there is some controversy regarding Copilot and I want to disregard that and focus on the practicality of using Copilot as a tool while typing code.

I was working on an addon for a game I play in my spare time called Elder Scrolls Online. The addon is called Trade Guild Ledger and is available on Github and is written in Lua. In addition to the Lua addon it has a client and server written in Go which extracts item pricing data from the game and uploads it to the server.

Github Copilot is a nice addition to my toolset as a developer, it’s like autocomplete when writing emails in Gmail. This is how Gmail auto-completes your sentences:

Copilot gets rid of the boring, repetitive tasks that I am doing over and over again as a developer. Here is an example of how Copilot auto-completes your code:

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