Re:GitHub Copilot
by hintymad on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @01:58PM
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Somehow I don't see people discuss this kind of tools from the perspective of managing essential complexity versus accidental complexity. Maybe copilot just increases the abstraction level of coding, so we can treat generated code as a building block, just like we nowadays rarely needs to care about how to write assembly code or how a balanced tree works?
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> Maybe copilot just increases the abstraction level of coding, so we can treat generated code as a building block
At this point it doesn't, and we can't, because Copilot is just a fancy autocomplete. The code is there, first class, in your file. It doesn't introduce new concepts for you, it just tries to guess what you mean by function signature + descriptive comments, and generates that code for you.