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Re:Building a no-code toxicity classifier by talking to GitH... by bobsmooth on Friday March 25, 2022 @12:22AM (#30798632)
>How do you know it was what you were after?

By testing it

>but at that point what's the value add for copilot?

Not having to look up the docs and writing it yourself.

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Re:Building a no-code toxicity classifier by talking to GitH... by mordymoop on Friday March 25, 2022 @10:40AM (#30802712)
Right, I don't know why people are so invested in minimizing how powerful this tool is. I have never properly learned Javascript but I can write Javascript using Copilot because copilot doesn't really make syntax errors, and I can recognize correct semantics, e.g. is it probably doing what I mean for it to do. And then I can, as you say, just test it.

It also bears repeating that Copilot will only get better.

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