Re:GitHub Copilot
by TeMPOraL on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @03:07PM
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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.
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.