Did GitHub Copilot increase my productivity?
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Did GitHub Copilot increase my productivity?
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Re: Did GitHub Copilot increase my productivity?
#2Local maxima go BRRRRRRR
AI will get there eventually, but this current paradigm seems increasingly only useful for spam and shitty clip art. Even so, everyone is throwing absurd amounts of investment capital at it in the hopes that something useful will happen. It's a pretty clear depiction of the investor class being so detached from the technical reality of what they're investing in that they just sit around lighting billions on fire thinking that they're getting richer instead of poorer. Go ahead and buy more H100s though...
Re: Did GitHub Copilot increase my productivity?
#3I don’t know if Copilot has made me more productive, I think I get the same stuff done, but I think it has made getting the stuff done more enjoyable. At times with better quality at times with worse probably.
Re: Did GitHub Copilot increase my productivity?
#4Writing fairly standard typescript APIs and React code, Copilot is immensely helpful and almost always correct. It definitely hits a wall when I am working on something sufficiently esoteric. As does ChatGPT, etc.
Re: Did GitHub Copilot increase my productivity?
#5I don’t know if Copilot has made me more productive, I think I get the same stuff done, but I think it has made getting the stuff done more enjoyable. At times with better quality at times with worse probably.
This made me think: the thing Microsoft has been good at for a very long time is developer tools. Think about how much better visual studio is was than Xcode.
If Microsoft focuses copilot on simply making things more enjoyable rather than do the work for you, I think it will be an amazing thing.
Re: Did GitHub Copilot increase my productivity?
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#7From my experience, Github Copilot is useful for its seamless autocompletes. But Github Copilot chat, a new feature, noticeably lags behind GPT-4. I get far better performance copying and pasting code into ChatGPT (GPT-4) than using Github Copilot. Both definitely help productivity, especially when generating code using an unfamiliar framework or library. It's great for generating skeleton code for small programs using new libraries, but it in its current form can only get you around 80% of the way there. You will spend hours fighting with the prompt to try and get the remaining 20% complete when it's much easier to just finish it yourself.
Re: Did GitHub Copilot increase my productivity?
#8Local maxima go BRRRRRRR AI will get there eventually, but this current paradigm seems increasingly only useful for spam and shitty clip art. Even so, everyone is throwing absurd amounts of investment capital at it in the hopes that something useful will happen. It's a pretty clear depiction of the investor class being so detached from the technical reality of what they're investing in that they just sit around light…
I've been finding this stuff genuinely useful for two years now, across Copilot and ChatGPT and Claude 3 Opus and similar tools.
Either I'm a dimwit, easily conned by hype and shiny tools to the point that I can imagine benefits for two years that simply aren't there... or there's something to them.
Re: Did GitHub Copilot increase my productivity?
#9From my experience, Github Copilot is useful for its seamless autocompletes. But Github Copilot chat, a new feature, noticeably lags behind GPT-4. I get far better performance copying and pasting code into ChatGPT (GPT-4) than using Github Copilot. Both definitely help productivity, especially when generating code using an unfamiliar framework or library. It's great for generating skeleton code for small programs usi…
Weird, because Copilot chat /is/ GPT-4 as far as I know. Or maybe they run it on 3.5?
Re: Did GitHub Copilot increase my productivity?
#10From my experience, Github Copilot is useful for its seamless autocompletes. But Github Copilot chat, a new feature, noticeably lags behind GPT-4. I get far better performance copying and pasting code into ChatGPT (GPT-4) than using Github Copilot. Both definitely help productivity, especially when generating code using an unfamiliar framework or library. It's great for generating skeleton code for small programs usi…
Weird, because Copilot chat /is/ GPT-4 as far as I know. Or maybe they run it on 3.5?
It runs both. Had seen this on the discussions on Github.
https://github.com/community/community/discussions/58059#dis...