Re:AlphaCode as a dog speaking mediocre English
by skybrian on Sunday February 06, 2022 @12:36PM
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Do you usually find the autocomplete from CoPilot useful enough to keep without editing, or is it wrong often enough to be annoying?
Re:AlphaCode as a dog speaking mediocre English
by crummy on Sunday February 06, 2022 @02:43PM
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In my opinion it's wrong most of the time but it's so harmless that it's absolutely worth it for the times it's right.
Kind of like regular autocomplete. If it's wrong you just keep typing.
Re:AlphaCode as a dog speaking mediocre English
by mark_l_watson on Sunday February 06, 2022 @01:05PM
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If it is wrong, I hit the escape key and the suggested code disappears.
Re:AlphaCode as a dog speaking mediocre English
by zarzavat on Sunday February 06, 2022 @11:09PM
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For me both are true. The suggestions are usually annoying and wrong, however sometimes copilot makes an observation that is non-obvious, i.e it suggests code that makes me realize that I was about to write a subtle bug. I keep it on as a sanity check.
As you type in comments or code, CoPilot will sometime autocomplete up to about 10 lines of code, based on the content of the file you are editing (maybe just the code close to the edit point?).
My other tools? I use LispWorks Professional, Emacs with Haskell support, and sometimes IntelliJ. I work a lot on remote servers so I depend on SSH/Mosh and tmux also.