I figured out how to get GitHub Copilot to run in the terminal

Re:I figured out how to get GitHub Copilot to run in the ter... by williamcotton on Thursday September 15, 2022 @07:56AM (#32850394)

I have found Copilot useful while writing compilers and virtual machines all the way up the chain to CSS grids and media queries.

Are you telling me there isn’t a fair bit of boilerplate in bog standard implementations of OP_ADD or in a grid layout with a sidebar and a footer?

The irony here is that the level of abstraction necessary to remove all boilerplate means that you’re removing the descriptive nature of the boilerplate and making your code difficult to understand.

Boilerplate isn’t necessarily a bad thing but sometimes it can be rather verbose and it is very nice to offload that typing to a tool.

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Re:I figured out how to get GitHub Copilot to run in the ter... by williamscales on Thursday September 15, 2022 @08:26AM (#32850725)

Whenever I have boilerplate in a codebase I try to make a tool to create it for me. So copilot does seem like an extension of that.

I think the thing that weirds me out about copilot is that I can't peer inside it. I guess I like knowing something will always work?

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Re:I figured out how to get GitHub Copilot to run in the ter... by artificialLimbs on Thursday September 15, 2022 @10:28AM (#32852588)

If it doesn't work, you don't have to accept its recommendation. You just keep coding.

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