> it makes me wonder what I'm doing wrong
I'm in the same boat: I'm mostly doing C# in Visual Studio (classic) with co-pilot, and it very rarely gives useful code from prompts. Often times the auto-suggestions are hallucinations, and frequently they interfere with "normal" tab completion.
I'm wondering if I'm using the wrong tool, or if Visual Studio (classic) co-pilot is just far behind industry norms?
The main problem I have with auto-suggestions is that they distract my flow of thinking. Suddenly, I go from thinking about my code carefully, to reviewing someone else's code. To the point where I get a bit stressed typing, worrying that if I go too slow, the suggestion will pop up. As you may guess, I therefore have them turned off :)
I am playing with Zed now though, and it has a "subtle" mode for suggestions which is great. When I explicitly want to see them, I press option key. Otherwise, I don't see them.
I felt the same way until I tried Claude Code. Moving from an autocomplete-based workflow to a conversation-based workflow changed everything. I find traditional Copilot useless by comparison.
Youre 100% being dishonest or not dealing with any sort of complexity.
Use it as someone you are working with / talking with. Not as auto complete. You need to reframe your work a bit to have best results interacting w/ llms