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Re:Copilot regurgitating Quake code, including sweary comments by gpm on Friday July 02, 2021 @10:12AM (#27711763)
If we're coming up with potential uses, I think they got the direction wrong.

Don't tell me what to do, tell me what not to do. "this line doesn't look like something that belongs in a code base", "this looks like a line of code that will be changed before the PR is merged". Etc.

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Re:Copilot regurgitating Quake code, including sweary comments by mimixco on Friday July 02, 2021 @12:30PM (#27713660)
That would be fantastic! Imagine if it could catch common errors before you make them. So many things in loops and tests that we mess up all the time. My favorite is to confuse iterating through an array vs an object in JS. I'd love to have Gazoo step in and say, "Don't you mean, this, David?"
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