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Re:I figured out how to get GitHub Copilot to run in the ter... by adammarples on Thursday September 15, 2022 @08:56AM (#32851153)
I was just revisiting an api call which it turns out needed pagination. I put a note in the docstring before I began and copilot just... rewrote the function to include pagination. Except for a couple of corrections to the json returned by the api (copilot could only guess), it just worked! I'm amazing by copilot and it frequently writes chunks of my code, especially shell scripts and docker files. A little worried that my job might be on the way out at some point!
Re:I figured out how to get GitHub Copilot to run in the ter... by Nanana909 on Thursday September 15, 2022 @01:34PM (#32855574)
I love it but it’s nowhere near the level of replacing anything but the lowest skill developers. The actual real skills involved with deciding what problems to solve, architecting and developing complex software would require general AI level AI, and at that point a *lot* of people are going to be out of jobs.
Re:I figured out how to get GitHub Copilot to run in the ter... by artificialLimbs on Thursday September 15, 2022 @10:30AM (#32852629)
I prefer to think that I'm learning $x much faster because I don't have to go hunting documentation nearly as often.