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Re:GitHub Copilot by gentleman11 on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @12:56PM (#27678559)
It could start to replace us in 20 years. Or reduce. It is exciting for now
Re:GitHub Copilot by handrous on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @01:00PM (#27678634)
Until it automatically knows when and how it's wrong, you'll still need a human to figure that out, and that human will need to actually know how to program, without the overgrown auto-complete.

May or may not reduce the demand for programmers, though. We'll see.

Re:GitHub Copilot by maficious on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @04:23AM (#27686243)
But that's exactly what you are doing as a programmer who uses it. If you autocomplete using it and then fix the code, you are literally telling it what it got wrong.
Re:GitHub Copilot by handrous on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @10:37AM (#27689078)
I was responding to "It could start to replace us in 20 years." I think if it can do that, it'll basically be AGI and a lot of things will change in a hurry. I don't think that a tool that can do that is even all that similar to this tool.