First of all, I started GitHub Copilot when I got enough confidence on my logic building. And it was a right decision. Autocompletions helping me to get my work done fast.
There is no problem in it. At all! Autocompletions helping me to focus on bigger problems and delegating small, repetitive logic to copilot.
But here's a catch. After few months of using this Autocompletions I forgot the syntax completely. There is no problem in not knowing the syntax (I was thinking this).
But when I started applying for Internships, in almost all interviews their basic requirements is knowing syntax. Interviewers give you a small task, and you have to write the code in normal online compiler. No autocompletions.
And in these situations, my mind gets blank. Since I'm not used to knowing how to write an Array.filter(), Array.reduce(). I know the working of them, but writing without autocompletions is something I can't be able to do.
I can build any application end to end. But with autocompletions handling easy, syntax heavy, repetitive tasks.
And the interviewer won't believe. Gives a bad impression. Like I can't even solve a basic problem just because I don't know the syntax.
So, I started spending some of time without using Autocompletions. And my muscle memory is coming back now.
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