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Re:GitHub Copilot by Jeff_Brown on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @12:12AM (#27684778)
Will this tend to blur the distinction between coder and manager? In the end a manager is just a coder who commands more resources, and relies more on natural language to do it.

Or maybe I'm thinking of tech leads. I don't know, my org is flat.

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Re:GitHub Copilot by kamaal on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @06:40AM (#27686980)
Issue is not writing code. Its changing, evolving or maintaining it.

This is the problem with things like Spreadsheets, dag-drop programming, code generators.

Its not easy to tell a program what to change and where to change.

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Re:GitHub Copilot by Jeff_Brown on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @08:41AM (#27687748)
I feel like you might be moving the goalposts. Maybe they're different problems, but it's not at all clear to me that mutation is harder than creation.
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