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Re: GitHub Copilot X – Sign up for technical preview

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Post by raincole »

drdrek wrote: post #167

I would love to hear from other people here but I tried it for a while and dropped my subscription. For short things it was nice, but the larger the suggestion the worst it got. I found myself constantly mentally debugging the output it suggested, I do not know if it was faster but I was mentally exhausted by it, unable to go for long periods of time. Dumb code completion is predictable, I know I'll need to press dow…

At this point, Copilot is as natural as autocomplete and syntax highlighting to me. Of course I can still write code without them, but it would feels really off and counter-productive.

Re: GitHub Copilot X – Sign up for technical preview

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Post by travisjungroth »

bavila wrote: post #592
rvz wrote: post #469

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> BRB buying some MSFT No. Tell me you buy the hype and on high impact macro-economic news like FOMC and lose more money due to volatility without telling me. Almost everyone here knew GPT-4 will release soon, months ago in advance and you now decide to 'buy' MSFT as soon as it goes up to $277? The market really does get retail FOMO'ing in stocks with the hype and it just never ceases to surprise me that it happens h…

This "tell me X without telling me" meme is, frankly, quite snarky and unnecessary.

It’s such a bummer that it started as a joke confessional TikTok meme and became a bitter forum reply meme.

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Post by vlunkr »

mewpmewp2 wrote: post #622
rvz wrote: post #469

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> BRB buying some MSFT No. Tell me you buy the hype and on high impact macro-economic news like FOMC and lose more money due to volatility without telling me. Almost everyone here knew GPT-4 will release soon, months ago in advance and you now decide to 'buy' MSFT as soon as it goes up to $277? The market really does get retail FOMO'ing in stocks with the hype and it just never ceases to surprise me that it happens h…

Based on my own productivity, and how strong the tools seem to be, then I presume current increase in the value is still too very low. These tools would eventually reduce workforce costs by 90% at the very least in my view. To me it seems like most people don't truly understand how things are going to change now.

Maybe when they become much much more sophisticated. Right now they reduce time spent write boilerplate and looking at docs. How much of you overall time is spent on those tasks now? For most devs its not much. Significant time is spent reading code to understand program architecture, investigating bugs caused by obscure edge cases, refactoring or extending functionality without breaking everything. Copilot doesn't even scratch the surface of those yet.

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Post by eggsmediumrare »

globular-toast wrote: post #386
hu3 wrote: post #130

Scary. For the first time in my life, I feel like my expertise is at risk of being rendered obsolete. Maybe not this year, but the writing is on the wall. Soon coding without an AI will feel as antiquated as delivering food by horse. And resistance is futile because markets will punish those who refuse. We'll probably need less and less developers as AI advance. Just like we need less manual labor in farms today. And…

Good. I'd rather not have to work forever. The whole point of this job is that I'm lazy. I don't want to do any work so I make machines do it for me. Why are people so attached to having to work?

I'm not attached to having to work, I'm attached to paying my mortgage and buying groceries.

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Post by fwlr »

nlh wrote: post #246
fwlr wrote: post #65

“developers can verbally give natural language prompts.” One more reason to demand remote work. I really do not want to be sitting next to the guy who spends 8 hours talking to his computer.

I think you may be missing the intended audience for this — it’s aimed at folks who are visually or otherwise impaired and cannot type using a traditional keyboard/input device.

Speaking to your computer is just as valid as typing into it! I have auditory processing issues, mentally processing speech takes up a significant fraction of my cognitive resources and I don’t really have the ability to just tune it out. Constantly hearing one half of a conversation would impair my ability to work almost as much as being forced to use a keyboard would impair the person who’s talking. I would be asking to work remote or private so that my needs aren’t in conflict with their needs. (Not that you could have guessed this was the case just from my comment, but that’s why I said “I really don’t want…” and not “People really shouldn’t be…”.)

Re: GitHub Copilot X – Sign up for technical preview

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Post by brightball »

drusepth wrote: post #532
gzer0 wrote: post #169

There are 5 different sign-up waiting lists. Each one needs to be signed-up for separately. [1] Copilot X: https://github.com/github-copilot/chat_waitlist_signup/ [2] Copilot Voice: https://githubnext.com/projects/copilot-voice/ [3] Copilot Docs: https://githubnext.com/projects/copilot-for-docs/ [4] Copilot for PRs: https://githubnext.com/projects/copilot-for-pull-requests/ [5] Copilot CLI: https://githubnext.com/pro…

> [4] Copilot for PRs: https://githubnext.com/projects/copilot-for-pull-requests/ One minor nit for the Githubbers inevitably lurking in the comments: The confirmation message for [4] says that they'll contact you at [first email address listed on your account], not [primary email address listed on your account]. I hope that's just a display bug since I don't have access to the email I first created my account with (…

I think I prefer the WhatTheDiff approach to this one.

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Post by reaperducer »

paxys wrote: post #407
pastor_bob wrote: post #393

Earlier quoted context omitted.

$50+ in monthly subscription fees? BRB buying some MSFT

We forgot very quickly that there was an entire generation of developers who paid $1000-2000 or more for an MSDN subscription just as the base cost for doing business. This is what Microsoft does.

We forgot very quickly that there was an entire generation of developers who paid $1000-2000 or more for an MSDN subscription just as the base cost for doing business.

Or $800 for a COBOL|FORTRAN|C|AP/L compiler, plus $600 for a debugger.

At least when you upgraded the next year, you got $20 off!

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Post by JeremyBanks »

dotancohen wrote: post #579
csantini wrote: post #470

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you want it cheaper: https://how2terminal.com This is when I build a product and then Microsoft releases it three weeks later -_-

What is `!-*f(6s6U8Q9b` here: const questionCriteria = { filter: '!-*f(6s6U8Q9b' // body_markdown and link } I thought maybe it is a hard-coded CSS element name in StackOverflow answers, judging by the context, but it's not that. Could you shed some light on this? Found in the How2 source file `how2/lib/how2.js`. Thanks.*

It’s an encoded bitmask indicating which fields to include from the API. The specific layout is an opaque implementation detail; the value is typically generated by the api playground Ui

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Post by brookst »

whimsicalism wrote: post #565
Terretta wrote: post #557

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Try selling through Amazon.com and see what % you keep. Then try selling through a grocery or drugstore chain.

The difference being I can always walk to a different grocery store without having to pay ~$1k.

As a brand, do you get more value from being on Amazon or in a local grocery store?

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Post by nprateem »

drdrek wrote: post #167

I would love to hear from other people here but I tried it for a while and dropped my subscription. For short things it was nice, but the larger the suggestion the worst it got. I found myself constantly mentally debugging the output it suggested, I do not know if it was faster but I was mentally exhausted by it, unable to go for long periods of time. Dumb code completion is predictable, I know I'll need to press dow…

It mostly just gets in my way by being frequently wrong, and disabling my IDE's autocomplete. If I didn't get it free I wouldn't pay for it.
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