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Re:GitHub Copilot by Jeff_Brown on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @11:25PM (#27684509)
It would be funny if after the AI automates away "all the boring stuff" we're left with the godawful job of writing tests to make sure the AI got it right.
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Re:GitHub Copilot by islon on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @08:20AM (#27687568)
I think it'll be much more likely that the AI writes the tests (the boring stuff) for the buggy code I write.
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Re:GitHub Copilot by Jeff_Brown on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @08:54AM (#27687879)
I can see the AI suggesting and fixing syntax in the tests. Determining their semantics, not without true AGI.
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