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Re:GitHub Copilot by godelski on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @03:38PM (#27680739)
Some people consider using stack as a heavy inspiration to be equivalent to "copy and pasting." It's linguistic shorthand really.
Re:GitHub Copilot by lovich on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @02:13AM (#27685491)
I am one of those. Unless it’s a few lines of standard library calls for the behavior I’m seeking, If I am copy and pasting a function over its as a template.

I then modify the majority of the answer to fit any special criteria outside of the general case I asked, or more frequently, modify the code beyond the minimum viable answer to fit in the test suite/logging framework/performance monitoring/etc that is involved in my platform

Still call it copy and pasting in casual conversation even if there’s not a single line that’s recognizable between where I started in stack overflow vs where I ended up