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- learning a new code base
- learning a new (popular) library
- learning a new language
You could compare it to, say, eslint but for other languages .
What is an idiomatic way of X with Y?
Well, copilot will give you the answer in 10-30 seconds less time than opening a browser and searching.
Im not going to argue it’s legal merits, but as a learning tool, it’s very much like having a smart linter.
The larger scale code generation is less obviously useful and usually wrong, I agree.
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- learning a new code base
- learning a new (popular) library
- learning a new language
You could compare it to, say, eslint but for other languages .
What is an idiomatic way of X with Y?
Well, copilot will give you the answer in 10-30 seconds less time than opening a browser and searching.
Im not going to argue it’s legal merits, but as a learning tool, it’s very much like having a smart linter.
The larger scale code generation is less obviously useful and usually wrong, I agree.