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Re:Risk Assessment of GitHub Copilot by tkiolp4 on Monday July 12, 2021 @03:26PM (#27813990)
Agree. It’s way easier to write a function from scratch than to read/evaluate/fix whatever snippet Copilot throws at me. Replace Copilot with “junior engineer” or “senior engineer that knows more than me” and the result is the same (the junior engineer will probably introduce couple of subtle bugs that are hard to find; the senior engineer would write code in such a way that my mediocre brain won’t understand).
Re:Risk Assessment of GitHub Copilot by jeltz on Monday July 12, 2021 @06:52PM (#27816020)
The best senior developers I have worked with knew how to keep code simple to understand for less skilled developers.