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Re:What will programming look like in 2020? (2012) by rak1507 on Monday September 27, 2021 @07:12AM (#28669294)
That sounds like an interesting idea, but to me a more convincing thing would be seeing the same person do something with + without copilot and see if it makes a big difference when used correctly.

To me 'smarter and faster' means being able to solve harder problems + accurately reason about things, etc. (And not introduce security issues, which is a whole other thing...)

If it is just a replacement for stackoverflow, it's probably useful and it could save time, but I'm not sure it's 'smarter and faster' any more than any other feature in an IDE (you could also create a hotkey or something to search SO which would probably be just as fast too).

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Re:What will programming look like in 2020? (2012) by byteface on Monday September 27, 2021 @07:57AM (#28669590)
You really notice when you don't have it anymore after using it for several weeks. Writing each line again, each painful character one at a time. I keep accidently opening sublime and going to type then realising it doesn't have copilot. And think ugh.

It's nice to reason about your actual problem and not the features of code.

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