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Re:GitHub Copilot by softwaredoug on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @12:19PM (#27678049)
It seems to replace/shorten the loop of “Google for snippet that does X” copy, paste, tweak, no? Which of course is super cool for many tasks!
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Re:GitHub Copilot by fzaninotto on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @12:23PM (#27678111)
It's smarter than that. It suggests things that have never been written. It actually creates code based on the context, just like GPT-3 can create new text documents based on previous inputs.

Edit: Check this screencast for instance: https://twitter.com/francoisz/status/1409908666166349831

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Re:GitHub Copilot by semi-extrinsic on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @12:57PM (#27678578)
Anyone tried this on any sort of numeric computation? Numpy, Julia, Pandas, R, whatever?

I definitely see the utility in the linked screencast. But I am left to wonder whether this effectiveness is really a symptom of the extreme propensity for boilerplate code that seems to come with anything web-related.

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Re:GitHub Copilot by aqme28 on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @01:31PM (#27679102)
I'm not convinced that code snippet in the screencast had never been written. It's fairly generic React, no?
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Re:GitHub Copilot by Jeff_Brown on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @09:25AM (#27688210)
Is the model similar to GPT-3? That seems extremely resource-intensive, particularly given how fast the suggestions appear.
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