Re:GitHub Copilot
by aerovistae on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @11:27AM
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> Potentially for newer developers it robs them of active experience of writing code.
And for those with experience, this will be obvious when reviewing their code. There's only two possibilities -- either copilot will get so good that it won't matter, or code written by copilot will have obvious tells and when someone is over-relying on it to cover up for a lack of knowledge, that will be very clear from repetition of the same sorts of mistakes.
And for those with experience, this will be obvious when reviewing their code. There's only two possibilities -- either copilot will get so good that it won't matter, or code written by copilot will have obvious tells and when someone is over-relying on it to cover up for a lack of knowledge, that will be very clear from repetition of the same sorts of mistakes.