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Re:GitHub Copilot is generally available by manimino on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @03:28PM (#31828073)
Generated texts often sound very confident, even when they are totally incorrect.

A humorous example: https://cookingflavr.com/should-you-feed-orioles-all-summer/

Human pair programmers will signal when they're not sure about something. A code generator will not.

Re:GitHub Copilot is generally available by jerf on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @05:50PM (#31829495)
I had to log back in just to thank you for this link. I've encountered these sites before, and told people about them, but this is just such a perfect chef's kiss example. Sheer perfection.
Re:GitHub Copilot is generally available by alluro2 on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @12:44AM (#31832106)
That link is... really something - it actually gets better and better the further down you go.

By "better", I mean more absurd, shocking and funny :)

Re:GitHub Copilot is generally available by BrandonJung on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @05:54PM (#31829536)
when we first built Tabnine we had confidence percentages next to suggestions. Do you think this would help?
Re:GitHub Copilot is generally available by meowface on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @08:46PM (#31830786)
In my opinion it's probably not worth adding unless the highest-confidence suggestion for a particular completion is significantly lower than average. So it informs you when it's especially uncertain and doesn't have anything better to offer, but that's it.
Re:GitHub Copilot is generally available by culi on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @09:17PM (#31830972)
How has tabnine been responding to the development of Copilot? I've looked into it and the most enticing feature to me is the ability to opt out of it using your own code to train (not even sure if that's a correct interpretation)

However it's even more expensive than copilot...