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I don't use chat, it's usually useless. Autocomplete is good enough that I can worry about concepts and Copilot will tab me the SQL blocks, loops and functions; I feel like it's a better flow and I'm faster over all.
For stuff like Angular it knows 95% of what you're trying to do since the possibilities are limited.
I think Chat is the most useful feature of Copilot. Prompts like /docs work impeccably, but /explain and /optimize is also pretty good. /tests is hit-and-miss if you have zero tests and require too much context if you already have them. More often than not /fix is a waste of time.
Where I found Copilot to be quite useful is something unexpected: naming things. You can prompt it to give suggestions, you can ask it to refactor things for you. Quite nice.
I think that Claude is far better at generating code, and explore new stuff, but Claude is also down and broken extremely often,not to mention it's annoying limit of 10 questions per half a day.