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Re:GitHub Copilot by simias on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @04:53PM (#27681575)
Reading this thread it seems to me that AI is a threat for "boilerplate-heavy" programming like website frontends, I can't really imagine pre-singularity AI being able to replace a programmer in the general case.

Helping devs go through "boring", repetitive code faster seems like a good way to increase our productivity and make us more valuable, not less.

Sure, if AI evolves to the point where it reaches human-level coding abilities we're in trouble, but that's the case this is going to revolutionize humanity as a whole (for better or worse), not merely our little niche.

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Re:GitHub Copilot by runawaybottle on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @07:07PM (#27682924)
C’mon guys, your standard backend schema with endpoints is like way easier to automate away.
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Re:GitHub Copilot by Daishiman on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @09:34PM (#27683915)
I mean, we already have? Use Django Rest Framework and simple business models and you're pretty much declaratively writing API endpoints by composing behavior. Almost nothing in a DRF endpoint definition is boilerplate.

The hard part has always been writing an API that models external behavior correctly.

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