GitHub Copilot Labs

Post by sillysaurusx » Thu, Dec 02, 2021, 10:29 AM UTC

nefitty wrote: post #58

sillysaurusx wrote: post #57

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I'm really happy to hear that. Thank you. When I started out, I only wanted to make some small contribution somewhere. It's really surreal that there are people rooting for me now. I'll do my best to continue to contribute in ways that I can. You can too, by the way. There's not a lot of difference between me and you. I believe in you.

I was literally sitting here trying to stop the waves of sadness I'm feeling from not meeting my own expectations. Bumping into a kindred spirit that's getting shit done really helps. Thank you for the nudge.

Post by vermilingua » Thu, Dec 02, 2021, 11:17 AM UTC

baby wrote: post #56

vermilingua wrote: post #43

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Perhaps your framework is not as state-of-the-art as you believe?

I’ll take the bait. What makes you say that?

Post by muthuraj57 » Thu, Dec 02, 2021, 1:15 PM UTC

snypox wrote: post #35

andreisbc wrote: post #31

I've been using Copilot for 3 weeks in a typical web project: typescript, react, css. Feedback: - when i declare a variable or function using a suggestive name, it correctly autocompletes what i want 50% of the time and it also takes into account the context; sometimes it just blows my mind how accurate it can be. - sometimes it doesn't autocomplete even if i delete the line to start over - i changed the way i code:…

The most insane is that it even autocompletes comments. It’s honestly scary sometimes.

Post by sharperguy » Thu, Dec 02, 2021, 2:33 PM UTC

mrtranscendence wrote: post #22

jimmaswell wrote: post #17

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I've been finding it amazingly useful from the outset. It's like it reads my mind generating whole correct functions just from a small comment or example, and it's great at extrapolating repetitive increments/transformations. Write a small comment telling it what you want and it's uncanny what it can spit out.

I've had the opposite experience so far, though I've admittedly not used it that much yet. I've got this Python fiscal date library at work, and I wanted to add a something like a `strtftime()` method which would replace $P with the period, $Q with the quarter, etc, but treat $$ as a literal $ (so that e.g. $$P would result in $P). Simple enough, but I thought it would be cute to see if I could get copilot to do it f…

Post by phamilton » Thu, Dec 02, 2021, 4:14 PM UTC

pqdbr wrote: post #42

phamilton wrote: post #40

My favorite copilot moment recently is rails migrations. I write the up migrating n, copilot gets the down migration right 90% of the time. It's wild. And these aren't vanilla "change" commands. It's triggers and check constraints and changing column types and stuff.

Not using Copilot yet, would appreciate if you could provide some real examples on what you typed and what copilot suggested.

  def up
    execute 

    execute 

      alter table users

      v

      validate constraint active_users_must_have_email
    SQL
 

  end

  def down
    execute