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Re:GitHub Copilot for individuals available without waitlist... by rjh29 on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @12:35PM (#31825914)
Uh, yeah. Consider how much programmers are paid per hour. Or how often you look up Stack Overflow or language documentation.
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Re:GitHub Copilot for individuals available without waitlist... by jpollock on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @12:40PM (#31825997)
If a programmer is paid per hour, then this is only worthwhile if it increases their hourly wage. Otherwise, it's just another cost.

Now, if they are paid per job and it makes them more productive... That's different.

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Re:GitHub Copilot for individuals available without waitlist... by margalabargala on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @12:44PM (#31826061)
The majority of programmers in the US are salaried.
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Re:GitHub Copilot for individuals available without waitlist... by croes on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @12:40PM (#31825999)
Isn't the lookup part of the learning?

If you just get the solution the learning gets smaller.

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Re:GitHub Copilot for individuals available without waitlist... by hutzlibu on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @01:05PM (#31826377)
Yes, but I do not want to learn all the internals of every random API, if copilot can help me with avoiding some, I am interested.
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