Kite – Programming Copilot

Re:Kite – Programming Copilot by aeorgnoieang on Thursday April 14, 2016 @11:49AM (#11497665)

I guess it depends on what a 'big deal' is exactly, but if it saves me all the Googling I do now then it'll be really useful (to me).

I don't expect them to really provide an intelligent artificial pair programmer, so you're right that this won't help with "any non-trivial complex problem", but that's okay with me.

I don't mind being spoon fed stuff I'm not interested in acquiring 'the hard way'. Do you also disdain autocompletion in your code editors?

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Re:Kite – Programming Copilot by libeclipse on Thursday April 14, 2016 @12:08PM (#11497841)

Funnily enough, I've never used auto-completion. I've even gone through the trouble of deactivating it in Atom, but disdain is a strong word.

Also, it just occurred to me that Kite is basically a keylogger. Every keystroke is sent to their servers. That requires a lot of trust.

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Re:Kite – Programming Copilot by fokinsean on Thursday April 14, 2016 @12:39PM (#11498184)

> Funnily enough, I've never used auto-completion. I've even gone through the trouble of deactivating it in Atom,

Super 1337 bro

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Re:Kite – Programming Copilot by aeorgnoieang on Thursday April 14, 2016 @12:30PM (#11498086)

Fair enough.

And certainly Kite could be a keylogger. So you're right that using it requires a lot of trust.

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Re:Kite – Programming Copilot by libeclipse on Thursday April 14, 2016 @12:13PM (#11497902)

One thing I will say though. Is that I greatly respect 'the hard way'.

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Re:Kite – Programming Copilot by aeorgnoieang on Thursday April 14, 2016 @12:33PM (#11498125)

Meh – https://xkcd.com/378/

I certainly understand why it's enjoyable, and useful, to setup artificial challenges, but I have way too many projects I'd like to work on, and complete, to want to make programming generally harder.

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