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Re: GitHub Copilot

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Post by saluki »

itsoktocry wrote: post #366
anthropodie wrote: post #335

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Few days back, Sam Altman tweeted this "Prediction: AI will cause the price of work that can happen in front of a computer to decrease much faster than the price of work that happens in the physical world. This is the opposite of what most people (including me) expected, and will have strange effects" And I was like yeah I gotta start preparing for next decade.

> Prediction: AI will cause the price of work that can happen in front of a computer to decrease much faster than the price of work that happens in the physical world. I'm skeptical. The envelope of "programming" will continue to shift as things get more and more complex. Your mother-in-law is not going to install Copilot and start knocking out web apps. Tools like this allow programmers to become more productive, wh…

This is just shortening the time it takes developers to Google it, search through StackOverflow and then cut and paste and modify the code they are looking for. It will definitely speed up development time. Sounds like a nice quality of life improvement for developers. I don't think it will cause the price of work to decrease, if anything a developer utilizing copilot efficiently should be paid more.

Re: GitHub Copilot

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Post by Jeff_Brown »

mullingitover wrote: post #781
anthropodie wrote: post #335

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Few days back, Sam Altman tweeted this "Prediction: AI will cause the price of work that can happen in front of a computer to decrease much faster than the price of work that happens in the physical world. This is the opposite of what most people (including me) expected, and will have strange effects" And I was like yeah I gotta start preparing for next decade.

Generating the code with help from AI: 25 cents Knowing what code to generate with the AI: 200k/yr

Will this tend to blur the distinction between coder and manager? In the end a manager is just a coder who commands more resources, and relies more on natural language to do it.

Or maybe I'm thinking of tech leads. I don't know, my org is flat.

Re: GitHub Copilot

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Post by otabdeveloper4 »

anthropodie wrote: post #335
asdfman123 wrote: post #309

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Pack it all up, boys, programming's over. Hello, AI. Anyone want to hire me to teach your grandma how to use the internet?

Few days back, Sam Altman tweeted this "Prediction: AI will cause the price of work that can happen in front of a computer to decrease much faster than the price of work that happens in the physical world. This is the opposite of what most people (including me) expected, and will have strange effects" And I was like yeah I gotta start preparing for next decade.

Don't hold your breath. (Coming soon right after the flying self-driving car.)

Re: GitHub Copilot

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Post by throwamon »

aprinsen wrote: post #833
varispeed wrote: post #745

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I have been using the Alpha for two weeks as well. I'm impressed by how GitHub Copilot appears to know exactly what I want to type. Not often it even suggests code I was going to peek, such as a snippet to a context menu or completing an array with all Romanian postcodes. Copilot is particularly helpful when working on Angular components where it makes mesmerising predictions. I see technology like Copilot becoming a…

Is this a joke? Top 3 comments follow almost an identical format?

> it does a mucho mejor trabajo de sugerir the right code, sometimes it is even writing the entire function para ti.

Whether it's a joke or astroturfing, this alone makes it brilliant.

Re: GitHub Copilot

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Post by jfoster »

anthropodie wrote: post #335
asdfman123 wrote: post #309

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pack it all up, boys, programming's over. Hello, AI. Anyone want to hire me to teach your grandma how to use the internet?

Few days back, Sam Altman tweeted this "Prediction: AI will cause the price of work that can happen in front of a computer to decrease much faster than the price of work that happens in the physical world. This is the opposite of what most people (including me) expected, and will have strange effects" And I was like yeah I gotta start preparing for next decade.

As it stands, this looks like it will actually increase the productivity of existing programmers more than it will result in "now everyone is a programmer".

Over time it will certainly do more, but it's probably quite a long time before it can be completely unsupervised, and in the meantime it's increasing the output of programmers.

Re: GitHub Copilot

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Post by rokkit »

inimino wrote: post #385

I'm amazed to see how positive the overall response is to this idea. Almost as if programmers think that writing programs is the worst part of the job and ready to be automated away. As someone more aligned with the Dijkstra perspective, this seems to me like one of the single worst ideas I've ever seen in this domain. We already have IDEs and other tools leading to an increase in boilerplate and the acceptance of it…

Thank you. If one trains an AI on a corpus of mediocrity, one should expect a mediocre result.

Re: GitHub Copilot

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Post by Kibae »

plasma wrote: post #823

I'm curious if this can reveal secrets (I realise this was trained in already publicly readable code), what happens if you do "var api_key = " what is the auto-completion?

I hope it would suggest something like `//process.env.API_KEY` to get users in the habit of not storing secrets on repos.

Re: GitHub Copilot

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Post by lostmsu »

cbsks wrote: post #398

I don't think we need to start looking for new career paths yet. This example has a few bugs and it took me longer to track them down than it would have to write it myself: #!/bin/bash # List all python source files which are more than 1KB and contain the word "copilot". find . \ -name "*.py" \ -size +1000 \ -exec grep -n copilot {}\; "-exec grep -n copilot {}\;" needs to have a space before the semicolon otherwise f…

I am not surprised. Bash is notoriously unreadable.

Re: GitHub Copilot

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Post by dannyw »

noway421 wrote: post #843
azinman2 wrote: post #611

I worry about auto-complete on a more philosophical level. I’ve noticed with gmail that it’ll often suggest it’s way of either replying to an email or completing a sentence even though I’d never actually use those words in that situation, simply because it’s easier. It’s a pretty bad feedback loop that robs us of our independent thought by way of falling victim to laziness, a fundamental human weakness. You can imagi…

Email is a just such a communication medium. It requires both prose at length, and also quick response. Even though the type of information passed around is usually binary: OK/NOT OK, or a status update. Gmail offers a way to reduce the "prose at length" to a few buttons. And it adds the pleasantries for you. You can think of it as a workflow automation tool. Your email chains are tickets and you're moving them throu…

Absolutely. While there's benefits and drawbacks to every technology, auto-complete in Gmail saves me so much time.

If I'm sending to a relative or family member for example, or even a professional contact, then I'm not going to be lazy and auto-complete. But when someone says "Does that sound good to you?" it's great to push a button that replies "Sounds great, thank you!"

Maybe I would have naturally written "That sounds great, thank you [name]", but what's the difference?

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