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Re:GitHub Copilot: First Impressions by lma21 on Sunday July 18, 2021 @08:06AM (#27872252)
I love the fact that it can help write tedious, repetive, and simple logic code blocks! It'll save me time googling basic stuff that I tend to forget.

Will it also learn (i.e. feed GPT) from the code we're writing which it is also helping to write? How do you think it'll learn to deprecate bad practices or evolutions observed in a language (think writing concurrency code in Java 5 vs. Java 9, or any other relevant Programming Language evolutions)?

Re:GitHub Copilot: First Impressions by stared on Sunday July 18, 2021 @08:25AM (#27872332)
> Will it also learn (i.e. feed GPT) from the code we're writing which it is also helping to write?

Most likely not. And at least right now Tabnine's selling point is that you do inference locally (so no need to send code elsewhere) and can be trained on such (vide https://www.tabnine.com/tabnine-vs-github-copilot).

Re:GitHub Copilot: First Impressions by dathinab on Sunday July 18, 2021 @09:05AM (#27872608)
The problem is it produce "more tedious/repetitive but maybe subtitle slightly of code" where we should try to have "less and higher quality code".
Re:GitHub Copilot: First Impressions by klohto on Sunday July 18, 2021 @08:16AM (#27872291)
Lol yea, feed it even more licensed code. That’s exactly what we need even more of now.
Re:GitHub Copilot: First Impressions by lttlrck on Sunday July 18, 2021 @10:25AM (#27873172)
What kind of code? I'm having trouble thinking of anything for the kind of work I do, that isn't catered for by "intellisense". Anything beyond that seems to be impinging on why I actually enjoy programming.