GitHub Copilot

Post by ganzuul » Wed, Jun 30, 2021, 4:34 PM UTC

fzaninotto wrote: post #399

fzaninotto wrote: post #310

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I'm not sure I spend less time actually coding stuff (because I have to review the Copilot code). But the cost of the code I write is definitely reduced, because: - the review from my peers is faster (the code is more correct) - I come back less to the code (because I have thought about all the corner cases when checking the copilot code) - As I care more about naming & inline docs (it helps copilot), the code is act…

Check out how it helped me write a React component: https://twitter.com/francoisz/status/1409919670803742734 I think hit the Tab key more than I hit any other key ;)

Post by cyberfart » Wed, Jun 30, 2021, 4:59 PM UTC

andrewstuart2 wrote: post #29

iwintermute wrote: post #21

So if it was trained using "source code from publicly available sources, including code in public repositories on GitHub." was it also GPLv2? So everything generated also GPLv2?

You bring up a really good point. I'm super curious what the legality and ethics around training machines on licensed or even proprietary code would be. IIRC there are implications around code you can build if you've seen proprietary code (I remember an article from HN about how bash had to be written by someone who hadn't seen the unix shell code or something like that). How would we classify that legally when it co…

Post by literallycancer » Wed, Jun 30, 2021, 5:46 PM UTC

cnvm wrote: post #245

tux1968 wrote: post #125

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How many jobs have developers helped displace in business and industry? I don't think it's controversial that we become fair game for that same automation process we've been leading.

Nothing is inevitable. Doctors and lawyers have protected their professions successfully for centuries. Only some software developers seem interested in replacing themselves in order to enrich their corporate masters (mains?) even further. Just don't use this tool!

Post by eggsmediumrare » Wed, Jun 30, 2021, 6:22 PM UTC

slver wrote: post #625

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…

You sound afraid you'll be replaced by software.

Post by IceDane » Wed, Jun 30, 2021, 7:25 PM UTC

pvorb wrote: post #548

throwaway675309 wrote: post #454

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I mean you say this, but you and most likely the majority of programmers rely on dozens of repositories, packages and libraries with likely zero deep understanding of it (and at the very least haven't read the source code of ) so I don't really understand the difference here. The advantage of something like this is that instead of having to go to stack overflow or any number of reference sites and copy pasta it can j…

I really wonder who those folks copy-pasting from Stack Overflow all day are. I only rarely find pieces of code that I can copy-paste. Typically Stack Overflow only gives me an idea of how to solve something, but incorporating that idea into my code base is still not trivial.