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Re:GitHub Copilot by asdfman123 on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @12:35PM (#27678280)
Most people on HN will probably be fine for a while. This innovation though, once properly developed, could completely screw over anyone wanting to enter programming.

Code completion might be the new "junior dev."

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Re:GitHub Copilot by manquer on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @01:12PM (#27678783)
All the computer scientists[1] at one point considered software developers and IT in the same light as higher level tooling evolved .

While sure purist view is not wrong that average quality of outcome has dropped since 70s-80s, the quantum of throughput meant that impact has been positive and immense.

Similarly I am expecting this kind of tooling would open up to more types of new developers.

[1] all the mathematicans thought similarly perhaps during 50s and 60s.

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