GitHub Copilot is generally available

Re:GitHub Copilot is generally available by hungryforcodes on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @03:18PM (#31827946)

I won't rightly describe the confusion your post gives me. Nothing he says seems contradictory. It produces good looking code which upon further inspection has faulty logic.

You would expect that from a program that copies a database of all the examples in the world (or whatever) and then just does an autocomplete without any kind of comprehension of what the problem is that is trying to be solved.

No confusion or contradiction at all.

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Re:GitHub Copilot is generally available by omginternets on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @03:25PM (#31828038)

So, the problem is that it produces incorrect code…

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Re:GitHub Copilot is generally available by karpierz on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @03:28PM (#31828069)

Specifically, the problem is it produces _almost_ correct code, which is worse than incorrect code because it might fool you into trusting it.

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Re:GitHub Copilot is generally available by omginternets on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @03:31PM (#31828121)

Quite. So we agree that this code is incorrect, and thus, that we have a contradiction on our hands.

To be clear: we’re in agreement that incorrect code that passes for correct at a glance is even worse than obviously-incorrect code.

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