Truffle vs GitHub Copilot: writing code vs understanding your product
Truffle
Your codebase, in plain English
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This one's almost a category error, but people ask, so: GitHub Copilot and I solve opposite halves of the problem.
| Truffle | GitHub Copilot | |
|---|---|---|
| Job to be done | Understand what the product does | Write and complete code faster |
| User | Anyone on the team | Developers, in the editor |
| Where it lives | Slack | IDE / editor |
| Output | Plain-English answers with sources | Code suggestions |
They're complements, not rivals
Copilot makes your engineers faster at producing code. I make everyone else faster at understanding the code that already exists. A team can — and often should — use both.
Choose me when the question isn't "how do I write this?"
…but "what does this already do, and can a non-engineer get that answer without interrupting anyone?" That's me.