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Trying to Understand Copilot's Type Spaghetti

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Re: Trying to Understand Copilot's Type Spaghetti

#3

Post by spacecadet »

janikvonrotz wrote: post #2

So unraveling AI generated code is the new programming?

What is typing. Lets say you have no hands, no eyes, and cannot speak or to speed this up- All you can do is communicate with foot taps (in great detail) to a human translator. Would we tell this person they are not programming?

Re: Trying to Understand Copilot's Type Spaghetti

#4

Post by blueappconfig »

from the original tweet linked in the post "ceiling is being raised. cursor's copilot helped us write "superhuman code" for a critical feature. We can read this code, but VERY few engineers out there could write it from scratch."

I don't really agree that code is superhuman if VERY few is able to understand it haha..! Code should complex but easy to follow to make it brilliant in my opinion

Re: Trying to Understand Copilot's Type Spaghetti

#5

Post by janikvonrotz »

spacecadet wrote: post #3
janikvonrotz wrote: post #2

So unraveling AI generated code is the new programming?

What is typing. Lets say you have no hands, no eyes, and cannot speak or to speed this up- All you can do is communicate with foot taps (in great detail) to a human translator. Would we tell this person they are not programming?

What is your point?

Re: Trying to Understand Copilot's Type Spaghetti

#6

Post by janikvonrotz »

blueappconfig wrote: post #4

from the original tweet linked in the post "ceiling is being raised. cursor's copilot helped us write "superhuman code" for a critical feature. We can read this code, but VERY few engineers out there could write it from scratch." I don't really agree that code is superhuman if VERY few is able to understand it haha..! Code should complex but easy to follow to make it brilliant in my opinion

I agree! This is not superhuman code, this is machine code.

Re: Trying to Understand Copilot's Type Spaghetti

#7

Post by zarzavat »

blueappconfig wrote: post #4

from the original tweet linked in the post "ceiling is being raised. cursor's copilot helped us write "superhuman code" for a critical feature. We can read this code, but VERY few engineers out there could write it from scratch." I don't really agree that code is superhuman if VERY few is able to understand it haha..! Code should complex but easy to follow to make it brilliant in my opinion

Even an average programmer can understand it if they bothered to read the TypeScript documentation. “Superhuman” in this case means “has read the manual”.

Re: Trying to Understand Copilot's Type Spaghetti

#8

Post by blueappconfig »

zarzavat wrote: post #7
blueappconfig wrote: post #4

from the original tweet linked in the post "ceiling is being raised. cursor's copilot helped us write "superhuman code" for a critical feature. We can read this code, but VERY few engineers out there could write it from scratch." I don't really agree that code is superhuman if VERY few is able to understand it haha..! Code should complex but easy to follow to make it brilliant in my opinion

Even an average programmer can understand it if they bothered to read the TypeScript documentation. “Superhuman” in this case means “has read the manual”.

No average person would be happy if they saw that mess

Re: Trying to Understand Copilot's Type Spaghetti

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Post by boesboes »

janikvonrotz wrote: post #5
spacecadet wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is typing. Lets say you have no hands, no eyes, and cannot speak or to speed this up- All you can do is communicate with foot taps (in great detail) to a human translator. Would we tell this person they are not programming?

What is your point?

They should have used copilot to write the comment, might hav been coherent them /s
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