Big BLOW to Copilot by CodeWhisperer

Amazon's new AI tool for developers called CodeWhisperer unexpectedly deals a big blow to GitHub's Copilot.
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[@AZisk]

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[@NikoKun]

When Copilot starts outputting unnecessary comment lines rather than code, I just start a new line, and type "def" (or whatever I expect the start of the code to be) to get it back on task.

[@UTJK.]

@@NikoKun for me it does that often.

[@Phasma6969]

@NoName And it is phenomenal when you know how the project should be structured.

[@loldoctor]

@@NikoKun Love your profile picture!

[@musprodev]

Remember to learn prompt engineering

[@gvarph7212]

From my experience, copilot gets a lot better when you already have a complete function before, and it can infer what you probably want the next function to do, as well as imitating the style of your existing code

[@ahmedjaber8595]

what about CodeWhisperer, it doesn't care about complete function before?

[@gvarph7212]

@@ahmedjaber8595 I haven't tried it yet. I was just commenting that the Copilot experience he showed doesn't really match 95% of the situations I use it in, and it usually works better in almost all of those situations

[@LaurenBuchholz]

@@gvarph7212 CodeWhisperer also looks at the immediately preceding code to try and guess intent... AWS release a video going into how it works in a little more detail. ie you can also use the arrow keys and see multiple implementations for a given function. I have not used CoPilot enough to really compare though...

[@andrescorrea682]

Does copilot take into consideration the project codebase? Or only the currently open file? I've been thinking of trying it out, but at work we have a monolithic repo that is quite large

[@caschque7242]

@@andrescorrea682 yes it does. It even checks your folder structure etc. The more code you have in other files, the better. Don’t know about the aws one. Will try though

[@malle1544]

With CodeWhisperer the more code you write the better it gets. Based upon the last few days I've been testing it, It is doing a fantastic job at figuring out what I'm about to do next. And one thing I noticed is that after opening a project with it CodeWhisperer it gives itself context based upon already existing codes. I'm not gonna lie the AI technology is gaining a lot of momentum lately.

[@umka7536]

Copilot does the same.

[@karlbooklover]

I often use the Shift Alt Enter function with copilot so that it displays 10 solutions and lets you pick one

[@karlbooklover]

Oh and next time the comment continuation shows up try skipping one line and then pressing alt + backward slash to activate copilot

[@Averagesasquatch]

@@karlbooklover as a novice thinking of trying this, these are both super helpful comments.

[@VivekPayasi]

@@karlbooklover can you please give corresponding shortcuts in Mac?

[@theLowestPointInMyLife]

ive been using copilot and I love it, its not really writing logic for me but any time you have a bunch of similar lines that are slightly different, like you have to call a function multiple times with different params, it predicts them almost perfectly. I also use it to write comments which I usually wouldn't bother with but it takes most of the effort out of it. I find it to be pretty helpful without getting in my way.

[@J.Rahman]

Great video as usual. Succinct, to-the-point and informative. Thank you and keep up the good work.

[@abhimanyusingh1593]

just press enter and leave one line and press space space. it will start writing code instead of comments - Copilot

[@nexusdino4374]

how do you have a search bar on top of your vscode?

[@Ben-ej1xp]

I switched from copilot to whisperer. I was getting the commenting issues in copilot too. I’m also AWS, so it makes sense for me. Openai generally gets in a muddle with code, especially with libraries which it may not have enough training data for. I’ve experienced it with some less than common data science libraries where it starts to hallucinate and will just keeping giving you fixes to its suggested code rather than saying “I’m not that familiar with x”.

[@jslowik]

Has anybody found a solution to CodeWhisperer not connecting until you open the aws toolkit window? Signed in w/ my Builder ID. Once I open the window it connects fine. Just a bit annoying, and Copilot doesn't have this issue.

[@ahmedjaber8595]

Thank you for the comparison. I usually use Copilot for .md, .txt, and adding comments to my code because it provides ideas that I may not have considered and highlights repeated words. However, CodeWhisperer is more powerful in solving problems and possibly reading code from other files in my opened project, although it doesn't support all programming languages and doesn't recognize .md or .txt files. Both of them suggest old syntax from 2021.

[@pauldolton9118]

How does it provide ideas for you

[@ahmedjaber8595]

@@pauldolton9118 i can't explain exactly how, you try open any .txt file with vscode and start writing for example your TODO project or writing resum for something you are learning You will see copilot gives you many ideas

[@mihailmelnic3238]

can you make a video of differences in using Copilet in VSCode and Webstorm ? looks like it has more features in VS

[@fdov4]

Greeeeat content I was using Tabnine last year as an AI code assistant but now that the big guys are in the battlefield I don't see a killer feature with them. Which is sad because I liked the product

[@MrHacross]

Love the Dudley Do Right inserts… “ A Few moments later…” LOL

[@ah89971]

It's still giving waiting list, how you say it's under subscription?!

[@kiriappeee]

For anyone who does run into the problem of infinite comments by Copilot, the solution is to not accept the next comment line and instead begin writing the function by typing in const (or def or whatever signals that you are actually starting to write code instead of comments). Copilot gets the idea from there and begins writing the code.

[@dejangegic]

What if I don't know how to start and that's what I asked him? Sometime I need to acces a method on an object, sometimes I want to create a function while at other times I might need to initiate or redefine a variable value. It would be nice if there was a shortcut (double space for example) where he omits the comment and generates the code

[@NguyenTran-eq2wg]

@@dejangegic Then it's time to google and figure it out yourself :)

[@first-thoughtgiver-of-will2456]

As of recently, my copilot has been giving me long responses which are almost always incorrect. Sometimes the first few lines are correct but I then have to delete all but those lines since I can only accept the entire suggestion.

[@patrickderp1044]

i have been learning python using chat gpt, should i use this? no coding experience

[@AatefTasneemkhan]

and how about building a rest api with ChatGpt or and of these tools in PHP, Angular, and Python seperately

[@Phasma6969]

You have to give copilot more context, meaning you actually have to know how you want to structure your code and then it is phenomenal. Will have to use CodeWhisperer more to figure out how it operates.

[@hakuna_matata_hakuna]

your content is great , straddles the line between entertaining and educational perfectly

[@FabioEloi]

the best daddy jokes in coding so far

[@fabriai]

Thanks for this. Very illustrative. Would you try Tabnine?

[@notmananshah]

Can you try using both of them for Java?

[@jvlppm]

I tried using code whisperer for over a month but it’s basically useless to me, it is always disconnected you have to keep clicking on the status bar begging for it to connect, very hard setup, each time I reopen vscode it disconnects, even when it connects it mostly doesn’t suggest nothing at all and when it does the suggested code is consisted of made-up api calls that don’t compile, didn’t seem to take into account my own code. So in the end the extension is there but it’s always disconnected for some reason and it’s not even worth trying to activate it again and again. On the other hand copilot used to work great on this same project up until it became paid and I had to uninstall it.

[@n0madfernan257]

how about google's bet? hoping we can compare if it goes out

[@familycosgrove817]

if you’re not calculating the area of a shape what are you calculating the area of?

[@ontheruntonowhere]

your mom

[@ClassyOnionUK]

Good job! Very good comparisons made here :)

[@karinkuto5540]

can you try the same comparison with the new copilot?

[@maxvamp]

I wish it supported swift. Maybe it does, but I have not figured out if it has. I also wish Apple would quickly partner with one of these, and integrate something into playgrounds and Xcode. Visual Studio x86 is already integrating it. All VS on ARM is a little behind.

[@alexkim1919]

Just installed CodeWhisperer and disabled CoPilot (for now). Want to see how CW performs.

[@zlackbiro]

I useing Codeium VSC Extension. Its amazing how big hints and autocomplete you can get from there.

[@siyahulhaq7062]

I am compared both of it today and found that both of them giving same kind of outputs

[@alanschmitt9865]

Would love to see a look at Java or C#. 🙂

[@alexh2665]

Can you test codewhisper with Python

[@AatefTasneemkhan]

What about PHP and Python with both tools

[@exshenanigan2333]

I've used both for sometime now. AWS VSCode extension is so bad that I want to delete it at this point. It's constantly orange, I don't know why, I have to keep signing back into it. It's more annoyance than the convenience it provides. Though if it's going be free that's a big plus obviously. I hope Amazon makes a separate extension for CodeWhisperer that doesn't require users to load the entire AWS extension.

[@alexanderkomanov4151]

Amazing! Good to see the same with the Python

[@choffmeister]

Id love to see a comparison of these with Tabnine Pro.

[@emersonalencarjunior8291]

I've been using Copilot for at least 2 weeks now and this annoying behavior with comments still haunts me, at least for something you have to PAY for to give real results. It looks like you have to put a good effort into the "comment prompt" to get what you want if compared to Codewhisper, which made me curious to try it now. Sometimes it goes straight to the point. Sometimes yes, it's like your highlighted video, loosely typed variables (any), the use of var instead of const and lets, but ignoring libraries you've already installed using something clearly adapted from a foreign code is worse, to the point If you know how to do this manually, it would probably be faster and less error-prone to do it yourself. Brilliant comparison! Keep'em coming! I think those two would deserve another comparison shortly since they're learning machines. Let's see which one gets more improvements and maybe new features next time.

[@ontheruntonowhere]

I love Copilot but probably only for lack of comparison to anything else. It saves me so much time that I don't really mind when it's wrong. In fact, it makes me feel smart when I catch it doing something dumb like using var instead of const. At the same time, I've noticed it doesn't reason like ChatCPT does. Rather, it seems more to act like a code typeahead, recognizing patterns and matching them to snippets in its training material. I'm giving CodeWhisperer a go tomorrow.

[@user-il1qn5kc1x]

I'd really like to see its capabilities with flutter

[@Rockyzach88]

It's assuming you are using more of an object oriented approach with the shape.

[@rajeshlalam97]

Can you provide examples with python django?

[@KendaBeatMaker]

Not defending Copilot but I think at 4:14 you would need two enters to get out of comment mode. CodeWhisperer looks great

[@fadsfgetal9222]

I gave it a quick try: the prompt seems to only support English, and i test of Rust code support is not very good. compere copliot

[@nestorrbolivare]

Both tests on OpenAI were created to use Davinci instead of gpt3-turbo (The one you were asking for).

[@AZisk]

that too !

[@Marina_DU]

There's this new ai code co-pilot called codeium. Maybe you can also try to compare it.

[@farhadsu]

Yes, I'm using Copilot and it is not helpful in new technology like the Blazor application pages in my case. Maybe I do something wrong.

[@bilalazhar4495]

not an expert on this but amazon has a lot more compute power then open ai to fine tune their code whisperer i assume also if they keep it free for individuals the more data they can get i can see it getting better then gpt

[@kipchickensout]

i asked copilot what i could improve in a function. it told me two obvious things that i already did correctly the way it "corrected" using chatgpt 4 instead was much more of a breeze

[@MatBettinson]

It's tricky doing a test on OpenAI's libraries because they are such a shitshow. They make major breaking changes at the drop of a hat, don't type their arguments or return values correctly. The documentation is a mess of referring to obsolete stuff and current stuff. I had copilot suggest old unworking stuff. I guess this is a reasonable test to show the importance of recent training data. All of this stuff is really opaque at the moment.

[@octain]

I’ve gotten around the commenting issue with copilot but making sure there is an empty line between the comments and where my cursor is.

[@deep2mixer]

ChatGPT probably codes better than both Copilot and CodeWhisperer just by looking at your examples. I could be wrong though. Thanks for this video.

[@dev_manish]

x2

[@kevyyar]

Nah. Copilot, ChatGPT and whisperer produce imaginative code. You cannot 100% trust the code outputs. Let them guide you is all.

[@ami_rza82]

it would be great if you could also do a test for java like this one

[@ZephniStrife]

Yup I've been using CoPilot for about 6 months or something. I do have to nudge it in the right direction occasionally by starting to type the line i expect, but 9 times out of 10 it's spot on, and it's usually my fault if it missinterprets what I'm trying to do. But to be honest this video has really made me atleast want to give whisperer a go! Much better than I expected... i do wonder how long it can stay free though. I don't mind paying for something like co-pilot as i swear I can get things done twice as fast and that results in money for me.. I definitely wouldn't expect something like this to be free.

[@dadthelad]

Well, no more than community edition IDE's, and OSS are free. These tools will likely become so ubiquitous that they are no longer considered something to pay for. I mean seriously, how many of them are running the Open AI under the hood, right?

[@bossmohd]

I've been using codeWhisperer for the past few months; it's been amazing. I've seen codeWhispere behave like a copilot, adding more and more comments, so don't be surprised

[@cattiestsage1386]

I hope job interview coding exams let us use these 😅

[@dudaoutloud]

Today is day one of my code whisperer trial. I’ve been using copilot for a year or so, but it really only became useful over the past few months. Plus copilot seems “moody” with good days and bad. I want consistency. I know I will need to get use to code whisperers quirks as well as how to properly engage with it, so I giving myself at least a couple of weeks to see which one works better for me. Thank you for the video!

[@AZisk]

Copilot has become “moody” lately. Maybe because it has competition :)

[@Phasma6969]

@@AZisk the model was updated with a newer codex and it appears more opinionated and expressive. Literally wrote out dot points for a function step by step and when I got past the last one it continued again and said "6. Profit" lmao

[@SahilP2648]

@@AZisk I thought Copilot X preview was available to anyone with a copilot subscription. Maybe not yet. For now ChatGPT and BingGPT still proivde the best results out of all these.

[@NeoChromer]

Why not use both?

[@Leto2ndAtreides]

Yes, you've given me reason to test Code Whisperer.

[@albertkwan4261]

The microphone you are using is awesome

[@jarrod752]

I've been using code pilot for a month, and it has always done that comment thing. It seems like it wants to keep doing what you're doing, and I've gotten into the habit of starting the word function to get it started off properly.

[@Sajal89]

Please make one for C++

[@supercurioTube]

Thanks! I'll try CodeWhisperer too because I'm writing code for Zephyr OS (embedded RTOS in C) at the moment and Copilot, including its chat is trained on really old version that don't compile with today's releases, and it's kind of useless.

[@supercurioTube]

Okay I tried and I got a lot of refusal to answer, saying that it's out of its domain of competence. Then trying something else, it provided code for Linux when I asked for MacOS. Not too convinced so far.

[@nukarma]

Do this when copilot x comes out

[@MostafaAhmedAhmed81]

What about Swift? There is not Alternative for programming for iOS.

[@FinnBrownc]

this is high quality content. you are the anti-linus tech tips

[@JuriBinturong]

how about Codeium

[@d3vilm4ster]

Awesome content!

[@everythingiscoolio]

This is great, but it's not the way to go anymore. You can create systems now that automatically do this and test their own code on multiple layers. For manual tasks this is probably still decent though. Though to be honest, I'd rather write out my thoughts and take gpt-4's starting point.

[@dadthelad]

What do you mean by "You can create systems now that automatically do this and test their own code on multiple layers." Can you tell us what tools you are using and what you mean exactly?

[@Haroon_abbasi]

3:44 if u press enter twice, its gonna generate code instead of comments

[@workflowinmind]

4:19 that's actually a feature and really useful, if you don't want it to complete comment just type "function" common...

[@alexjenkins8026]

I use Python and OpenAI gives soo much shitty old code references. I'm trying Cursor now, maybe whisperer next :)

[@sargon4307]

The part where it sends infinite comments, its the most i hated copilot about since it was launched

[@tech_hashes]

Been using CodePilot and, I have experienced the same result of keeping on suggesting with comments. I gonna trye CodeWhisper 😁

[@RA-xx4mz]

Copilot Continuous comments is common from my experience. I have to be pretty explicit with my comments or begin writing some code to trigger autocomplete

[@inchane4933]

this is cool, thanks for doing it

[@AZisk]

Glad you liked it!

[@ayushs_2k4]

PLease try them on C++ language

[@yokowasis]

now that I think about it, copilot feels dumber and dumber. Most of the time I use chatgpt now, with genie extension. it's way cheaper than paying $10 a month. not that I paid it. I got it for free using my teacher id card.

[@nyambe]

Copilot gets in the way more than it helps. Specially now that we have chat gpt

[@journees4300]

One thing for sure, these tools has greatly reduce the amount of time spent on search engines and SOF.

[@mlnima]

in jetbrain whisperer works better for me. for my pocket as well :D

[@HaseebHeaven]

Yes i also had encountered the comments bug or unnecessary text from Copilot. But Code whisper is slow and doesn’t generate full code snipet yey

[@analisamelojete1966]

Copilot is what I’d like to call a GIGO model. They didn’t care to at least see what kind of code they were using.

[@richod9635]

I used copilot to create a simple blackjack game. Copilot generated the proper comments for each method needed, but created no actual code.

[@JaredFL]

All you have to do when it keeps adding to the comments to add a line break after the comment

[@ranjansoumyab1963]

With this much ease of coding, the development skills itself will be vulnerable keeping a large chunk of data to get crash anytime

[@dadthelad]

Well, you don't need AI tools to write horrid code, I've come across some absolute shockers in my time. To use any of these tools properly, you still have to know how to code. These tools usually write spectacularly well written code. They are merely going to massively increase the productivity of skilled developers. Anyone unskilled isn't going to be able to piece together reliable production grade software.

[@worstofworst]

why have 2 windows when you can have 2 laptops?, now that's a flex xD

[@chaosordeal294]

Dog is my CodeWhisperer.

[@BenPanna]

amazing, the content is really up to date, someone should deliver guideline how he really did it and show to easy to follow video , thanks

[@BokoMoko65]

I got this unending comments all the time with Copilot

[@KjetilYtrehus]

Im also experiencing the comment adding now...

[@nlnl8787xd]

CodeWhisperer is slower, but I like its output more.

[@benoitrousseau4137]

I quickly threw away those tools as I found out they weren't particularly good at generating C++, which is the language I use daily. I'd be curious to see if CodeWhisperer generates better C++ than Copilot or ChatGPT, although at the same time I'm not too keen about supporting Amazon.

[@dadthelad]

Maybe you should throw away C++ ;)

[@santiagobotto9566]

Yeah, Copilot is working worse by the day for me. I'm now about to start testing CW and hope for better results

[@BenMeddeb]

C is the real test. pointers , structs ...

[@quadratetechsolutionspriva3669]

Copilot X seems to be in holidays 😂😂

[@MattOatesUK]

Now pay for the GPT4 and see what Copilot X is going to be like, which is blow both of these out of the water.

[@mr.mike678]

Copilot is adding more comments to my code all the time. It's better at writing comments than the actual code.

[@trejohnson7677]

Inb4 code assistant orchestrators 2025. “code conductor”