Re:Is GitHub Copilot a blessing, or a curse?
by toomanyducks on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @01:02AM
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But if a human isn't messing with the code, the code doesn't matter - what the bot does to the code matters. And if the bot can handle bad code in a way humans can't, that means something. Code quality will become less important if automated tools, the ones reading and writing the code, don't care about it.
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Re:Is GitHub Copilot a blessing, or a curse?
by city41 on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @11:02AM
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In some ways this has been the case for a long time. Tools that generate code, such as Visual Studio's form designer as a simple example, often generate really bad code. But no one ever reads it, and if you need to make a change you just run the tool again. So the fact the code is bad isn't very relevant.