GitHub Copilot available for JetBrains and Neovim

Re:GitHub Copilot available for JetBrains and Neovim by sireat on Thursday October 28, 2021 @07:08AM (#29024633)

I also fear that Copilot will be teaching anti-patterns.

Just tried something really simple: def is_palindrome

Copilot suggestion was

  def is_palindrome(word):
      if word == word[::-1]:
          return True
      else:
          return False

facepalm

So good for technically correct solution but still...

This is an anti-pattern I think in pretty much any language that I know of and something that about half of my beginning students try when they learn about branching..

UPDATE: more howlers along the same vein

  def haystack_contains_needle(haystack, needle):
      if needle in haystack:
          return True
      else:
          return False

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Re:GitHub Copilot available for JetBrains and Neovim by sireat on Thursday October 28, 2021 @12:02PM (#29027608)

UPDATE: The above howlers were in IntelliJ...

However in Visual Studio Code on a different computer, I got much better idiomatic suggestions.

such as

  def is_palindrome(word):
      return word == word[::-1]

Very puzzling.

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