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It may be desirable for boilerplate to be maximally painful if it forces our collective hands to cut down on boilerplate and innovate it away
Who is realistically going to innovate the boilerplate out of Java if they're stuck using it at work?
Disgusting.
Copilot has been super fun! Here is a small website I generated via only comments - in the HTML and JS. The CSS needed a bit more massaging but it also auto generated. https://spencer0.github.io/copilot-tests/
The fall of rome was a great event for the people of rome.
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It does the boring code for me. 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…
This is the kind of thing I would need to see in real time, because I simply can't believe that it does any of these things in a way that is reliable and doesn't involve having to search through and make sure it hasn't made any mistakes, taking just as much time as if you did it by hand.
I will say, though, that it's also good at making up code that looks very believably real but doesn't actually work.
The ethics involved in Copilot are a bit strange, and I'm not sure I'll keep using it for those reasons, but it does a good job.
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This is the kind of thing I would need to see in real time, because I simply can't believe that it does any of these things in a way that is reliable and doesn't involve having to search through and make sure it hasn't made any mistakes, taking just as much time as if you did it by hand.
Likewise skeptical, but I have been super impressed with it. I just got in to the technical preview, and worked through a specific task I needed to do (involving mongoose, a mongo aggregate query, a few loops, some date functions) and started by adding a comment above each line. It helped a lot actually, felt like a collab. I'll reproduce a generic example I sent a friend. Prompt: const redis = require('redis'); // C…
Still no way to opt your code out of this. Disgusting.
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This is the kind of thing I would need to see in real time, because I simply can't believe that it does any of these things in a way that is reliable and doesn't involve having to search through and make sure it hasn't made any mistakes, taking just as much time as if you did it by hand.
Likewise skeptical, but I have been super impressed with it. I just got in to the technical preview, and worked through a specific task I needed to do (involving mongoose, a mongo aggregate query, a few loops, some date functions) and started by adding a comment above each line. It helped a lot actually, felt like a collab. I'll reproduce a generic example I sent a friend. Prompt: const redis = require('redis'); // C…
So, I actually consider this to be exactly the bad behavior that people accuse Copilot of.