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Re: GitHub Copilot Coding Agent

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Post by tjpnz »

timrogers wrote: post #61
binarymax wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So I need to ask: what is the overall goal of your project? What will you do in, say, 5 years from now?

What I'm most excited about is allowing developers to spend more of their time working on the work they enjoy, and less of their time working on mundane, boring or annoying tasks. Most developers don't love writing tests, or updating documentation, or working on tricky dependency updates - and I really think we're heading to a world where AI can take the load of that and free me up to work on the most interesting and…

>Most developers don't love writing tests, or updating documentation, or working on tricky dependency updates - and I really think we're heading to a world where AI can take the load of that and free me up to work on the most interesting and complex problems.

Where does the most come from? There's a certain sense of satisfaction in knowing I've tested a piece of code per my experience in the domain coupled with knowledge of where we'll likely be in six months. The same can be said for documentation - hell, on some of the projects I've worked on we've entire teams dedicated to it, and on a complicated project where you're integrating software from multiple vendors the costs of getting it wrong can be astronomical. I'm sorry you feel this way.

Re: GitHub Copilot Coding Agent

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Post by timrogers »

OutOfHere wrote: post #64

Which model does it use? Will this let me select which model to use? I have seen a big difference in the type of code that different models produce, although their prompts may be to blame/credit in part.

At the moment, we're using Claude 3.7 Sonnet - but we're keeping our options open to experiment with other models and potentially bring in a model picker.

(Source: I'm on the product team for Copilot coding agent.)

Re: GitHub Copilot Coding Agent

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Post by hollowturtle »

timrogers wrote: post #175
hollowturtle wrote: post #151

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> 1,000 pull requests contributed by Copilot I'd like a breakdown of this phrase, how much human work vs Copilot and in what form, autocomplete vs agent. It's not specified seems more like a marketing trickery than real data

The "1,000 pull requests contributed by Copilot" datapoint is specifically referring to Copilot coding agent over the past 2.5 months. Pretty much every developer at GitHub is using Copilot in their day to work, so its influence touches virtually every code change we make ;)

I'm sorry but given the company you're working for I really have hard time believing such bold statements, even so more that the more I use copilot the more feels dumber and dumber

Re: GitHub Copilot Coding Agent

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Post by bluefirebrand »

qwertox wrote: post #82
fvold wrote: post #80

The biggest change Copilot has done for me so far is to have me replace my VSCode with VSCodium to be sure it doesn't sneak any uploading of my code to a third party without my knowing. I'm all for new tech getting introduced and made useful, but let's make it all opt in, shall we?

Care to explain? Where are they uploading code to?

Whatever servers run Copilot for code suggestions

That isn't running locally

Re: GitHub Copilot Coding Agent

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Post by ai-skeptic »

timrogers wrote: post #173
leptons wrote: post #167

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> allowing developers to spend more of their time working on the work they enjoy, and less of their time working on mundane, boring or annoying tasks. I get paid for the mundane, boring, annoying tasks, and I really like getting paid .

But would you rather get paid to spend your time doing the interesting and enjoying work, or the mundane and boring stuff? ;) My hope is that agents like Copilot can help us burn down the tedious stuff and make more time for the big value adds.

Though I do not doubt your intentions to do what you think will make developers' lives better, can you be certain that your bosses, and their bosses, have our best interests in mind as well? I think it would be pretty naive to believe that your average CEO wouldn't absolutely love not to have to pay developers at all.

Re: GitHub Copilot Coding Agent

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Post by metaltyphoon »

echelon wrote: post #159
timrogers wrote: post #61

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What I'm most excited about is allowing developers to spend more of their time working on the work they enjoy, and less of their time working on mundane, boring or annoying tasks. Most developers don't love writing tests, or updating documentation, or working on tricky dependency updates - and I really think we're heading to a world where AI can take the load of that and free me up to work on the most interesting and…

Do you think you're putting yourself or your coworkers out of work? If/when will this take over your job?

The thought here is problem “well … I’ll obviously never get replaced”. This is very sad indeed

Re: GitHub Copilot Coding Agent

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Post by guestbest »

I go back and forth between ChatGPT and copilot in vs code. It really makes the grammar guessing much easier in objc. It’s not as good on libraries and none existent on 3rd party libraries, but that isn’t maybe because I challenge it enough. It makes tons of flow and grammar errors which are so easy to spot that I end up using the code most of the time after a small correction. I’m optimistic about the future especially since this is only costing me $10 a month. I have dozens of iOS apps to update. All of them are basically productivity apps that I use and sell so double plus good.

Re: GitHub Copilot Coding Agent

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Post by metaltyphoon »

dyauspitr wrote: post #166
Scene_Cast2 wrote: post #8

I tried doing some vibe coding on a greenfield project (using gemini 2.5 pro + cline). On one hand - super impressive, a major productivity booster (even compared to using a non-integrated LLM chat interface). I noticed that LLMs need a very heavy hand in guiding the architecture, otherwise they'll add architectural tech debt. One easy example is that I noticed them breaking abstractions (putting things where they do…

I don’t get it? Isn’t it just a monthly fixed subscription.

For now. Who is to say in 5 years where everyone makes this THE default workflow things work go up in price?

Re: GitHub Copilot Coding Agent

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Post by dankwizard »

bionhoward wrote: post #147

Major scam alert, they are training on your code in private repos if you use this You can tell because they advertise “Pro” and “Pro+” but then the FAQ reads, > Does GitHub use Copilot Business or Enterprise data to train GitHub’s model? > No. GitHub does not use either Copilot Business or Enterprise data to train its models. Aka, even paid individuals plans are getting brain raped

If you're programming on Windows, your screen is being screenshotted every few seconds anyway. If you don't think OCR isn't analysing everything resembling a letter on your screen boy do I have some news for you.

Re: GitHub Copilot Coding Agent

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Post by djtango »

eterm wrote: post #68
Scene_Cast2 wrote: post #26

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Cline very visibly displays the ongoing cost of the task. Light edits are about 10 cents, and heavy stuff can run a couple of bucks. It's just that the tab accumulates faster than I expect.

> Light edits are about 10 cents Some well-paid developers will excuse this with, "Well if it saved me 5 minutes, it's worth an order of magnitude than 10 cents". Which is true, however there's a big caveat: Time saved isn't time gained. You can "Save" 1,000 hours every night, but you don't actuall get those 1,000 hours back.

Huh? What happens if you stop using your washing machine and go back to hand washing everything?
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