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Can any users give their opinion on how it's helping their productivity? What problems are they finding, if any?
For example, I didn't know about self.fail() in unittests and had never used it, but Copilot suggested it and it produced the most readable version of the unit test
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I only played around with it on OpenAI but it's the same model as far as I know. It's pretty good at regurgitating algorithms it's seen before. It's not good at all at coming up with new algorithms. It's very good at translating between programming languages, including pseudocode. It can write a lot more valid code much quicker than any human, and in a whole slew of languages. I haven't had the urge to use it much af…
Your response makes me wonder if poisoning the well is possible by submitting code to Github with multiple languages and coding styles. A single file with a function signature written in Javascript and the body written in Python + Ruby. Enough code would surely break the AI model behind it. Unless Copilot has some sort of ingestion validation which wouldn’t surprise.
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I only played around with it on OpenAI but it's the same model as far as I know. It's pretty good at regurgitating algorithms it's seen before. It's not good at all at coming up with new algorithms. It's very good at translating between programming languages, including pseudocode. It can write a lot more valid code much quicker than any human, and in a whole slew of languages. I haven't had the urge to use it much af…
Your response makes me wonder if poisoning the well is possible by submitting code to Github with multiple languages and coding styles. A single file with a function signature written in Javascript and the body written in Python + Ruby. Enough code would surely break the AI model behind it. Unless Copilot has some sort of ingestion validation which wouldn’t surprise.
So not only would you have to submit a insanely large amount of code but you're also racing against literally millions of users writing legitimate code at any period of time.
Can any users give their opinion on how it's helping their productivity? What problems are they finding, if any?
Tried it out for a while, and it's clear that it's trying to get people to be faster at writing boilerplate, not get people to write better code. I'm a bit scared for what this means as I don't think being able to faster write boilerplate is something worthwhile. The example ed_elliott_asc made is one of those examples where instead of fixing things so you don't have to repeat yourself, copilot makes it easy to just…
But do you believe people being slower at writing boilerplate is undesirable?
Can any users give their opinion on how it's helping their productivity? What problems are they finding, if any?
Tried it out for a while, and it's clear that it's trying to get people to be faster at writing boilerplate, not get people to write better code. I'm a bit scared for what this means as I don't think being able to faster write boilerplate is something worthwhile. The example ed_elliott_asc made is one of those examples where instead of fixing things so you don't have to repeat yourself, copilot makes it easy to just…
Can any users give their opinion on how it's helping their productivity? What problems are they finding, if any?
If I want to throw an exception if an object is null or undefined, Co-pilot will do the if and the exception throw using the right error class, and a more meaningful error message that what I usually came up with.
If want to map some random technical data table to something useful in my programming language, I can copy paste the data from the documentation in pdf or html into a comment block, give an example, and co-pilot will write everything in the format I want.
If I want to slightly refactor some code, I can do it once or twice and co-pilot can help me a lot to refactor the remaining.
If I want to have a quick http server in nodejs, I don't have to Google anything.
It's a lot of tiny things like this.
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Tried it out for a while, and it's clear that it's trying to get people to be faster at writing boilerplate, not get people to write better code. I'm a bit scared for what this means as I don't think being able to faster write boilerplate is something worthwhile. The example ed_elliott_asc made is one of those examples where instead of fixing things so you don't have to repeat yourself, copilot makes it easy to just…
> I don't think being able to faster write boilerplate is something worthwhile But do you believe people being slower at writing boilerplate is undesirable?
Can any users give their opinion on how it's helping their productivity? What problems are they finding, if any?
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