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Re:I tested Copilot in an existing open-source codebase with... by Tcc1 on Sunday August 15, 2021 @07:51PM (#28193644)
He probably spent more time figuring out if the suggestions are usable than he would have needed to just implement those manually.
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Re:I tested Copilot in an existing open-source codebase with... by byteface on Monday August 16, 2021 @11:39AM (#28199349)
I guess if he wrote tests first it would have said. no method called x in util. TDD helps take a lot of thinking out of problems.
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