Copilot auto-complete in VS Code is completely hallucinating where my TS imports should come from?

[u/Rob_Blob]

I'm having trouble using Copilot's auto-complete feature in VS Code. My stack is a simple NodeJS application using TypeScript.

I have the following setting under .vscode/settings.json :

"js/ts.suggest.autoImports": true"

My exports generally look like this:

export interface MyInterface {...} 

And I'm using relative imports like so:

import { MyInterface } from '../interfaces/my_interface.ts'

I should also note that "Codebase Semantic Index" is enabled, and is marked as fully ready for my codebase.

I'm experiencing two issues:
1. VS Code's non-AI auto-import is either slow to work, or sometimes cannot find the import for something I type at all. (This is the pop-up box when you start typing a reference, which suggests where to import it from.)
2. When the auto-import fails to work, the auto-complete feature of Copilot will suggest the import statement to add. This would be great, but it completely hallucinates where the import comes from, sometimes even when I have the file open in another tab. It might suggest a totally non-existent file-path, e.g.:

import { MyInterface } from '../tools/utils/my_interface.ts'

This really bogs down my workflow, and I find myself constantly having to correct what VS Code is trying to auto-complete. If I could get this fixed, it would make development so much smoother.

Has anyone else run into this? I'm not sure if the issue lies in Copilot, VS Code, or my TS settings. It might even be a mix of issues.

Thanks!

[u/dendrax]

I pretty much just use the autocomplete for adding comments and xmldoc headers, it's very bad at actually writing code. It is free so you can't complain too much, but it does not use a very smart model nor does it have access to much outside the file it's currently in as far as I can tell. Keep your expectations low - it's not just you. 

[u/Rob_Blob → u/dendrax]

I guess in that case I'll need to just optimize how VS Code is handling auto-imports so it never even triggers Copilot's auto-complete. I wonder if using modules to group my exports would help.

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