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Re:GitHub Copilot available for JetBrains and Neovim by armchairhacker on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @09:47PM (#29021379)
I've only used it a bit and it's like glorified autocompletion. It messes up a lot in some ways too, often suggesting getFoo when in kotlin we just use foo.

It is really fun to see it sort of understand your code though, and every once in a while it does a smart suggestion that could've taken a while for me to figure out myself.

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Re:GitHub Copilot available for JetBrains and Neovim by Gigachad on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @11:10PM (#29021937)
It's certainly a good autocomplete but it can't be used for anything more complex because you just can't trust it. Every now and then it produces an entire function filled with complexity and I think "This looks right but I would need to independently verify everything" and at that point it's easier to write from scratch.
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Re:GitHub Copilot available for JetBrains and Neovim by baby on Thursday October 28, 2021 @02:26AM (#29023026)
Whenever it happens it’s actually a good foundation as it still does a lot of boilerplate
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