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Re:40% of the code GitHub Copilot users check-in is AI gener... by enlyth on Wednesday March 15, 2023 @05:21AM (#35165722)
It's not foolproof but it does guess a lot of what you had exactly in your mind, just hadn't typed down yet.

If I start "enum { North", I will gladly accept the ", East, South, West }" autocomplete from Copilot, and this kind of thing, in aggregate, saves hours of your time.

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Re:40% of the code GitHub Copilot users check-in is AI gener... by TheUndead96 on Wednesday March 15, 2023 @05:35AM (#35165780)
This is my feeling exactly, it is a semantic auto-complete. Should/can it write your core business logic? Probably not, but there is a good chance it can infer and suggest logical patterns in implementation.
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