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Re:It’s Like GPT-3 but for Code – Fun, Fast, and Full of Flaws by sireat on Saturday March 19, 2022 @02:48PM (#30736535)
I too was pretty skeptical of Copilot when I started using it last summer.

However it is shockingly good for filling out Python snippets - ie smarter autocomplete when teaching.

Popular libraries like Pandas, Beautiful Soup, Flask are perfect for this.

About 80% time it will fill out the code exactly they way I would want. About 10% time it will be something you want to correct or nudge.

Then about 10% of time it will be a howler or anti-pattern.

Then you simply explain it to students why it is not so great to say insert something at a beginning of a Python list.

Edit: Copilot is also great for filling out comments when teaching

# it can generate Captain Obvious what comments and also some nice why type comments as well

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