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Re:Kite is saying farewell, and is open-sourcing all of its ... by eloff on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @10:07AM (#33706572)
It's my personal anecdote, I make no claims that other people feel the same way. If they were logical, they should though. Paying $10 to get several hundred dollars in productivity gains is a no-brainer. It's the same reason I pay for a second monitor, a properly comfortable chair and desk, a top end computer, and JetBrains. At software engineer salaries, even small productivity improvements pay off handsomely.
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Re:Kite is saying farewell, and is open-sourcing all of its ... by mrtranscendence on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @10:33AM (#33706851)
I don't know about software engineering more generally, but I found it worse than useless for my work in data science (machine learning and ETL pipelines), spitting out code that was so wrong that it couldn't be salvaged. I suspect there's a wide variance in the degree to which Copilot will indeed pay for itself.
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