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Re:GitHub Copilot X: The AI-powered developer experience by vintermann on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @10:45AM (#35261825)
Yes, I feel like it is much better than HN has given it credit for in earlier discussions. But that may be influenced by the fact that I only started using it relatively recently; I've probably mostly seen it at its best.

Also, I have no illusions about how language models work. I notice that the sloppier the code I'm editing, the worse suggestions (and dumber comments) it suggests. If I start writing a comment and copilot immediately suggests "TODO: delete this", that's a better indicator of poor code health than any metric I know about. It's not a magic wand, but it can be extremely useful if you use it sensibly.

Then again, you can just decide to forget how it works and ask it questions directly in comments:

    // Hey GPT3, write me a poem
    // ANSWER:
It's not sensible, but it's great fun.
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Re:GitHub Copilot X: The AI-powered developer experience by Kiro on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @10:47AM (#35261860)
You're being too kind on the HN crowd. We're usually extremely pessimistic for no good reason and useless at predicting things. It seems like we just love to hate on stuff.
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Re:GitHub Copilot X: The AI-powered developer experience by acdha on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @10:57AM (#35262041)
People here love hot takes, especially if it stakes out a contrarian position as the smart one. Criticizing the big players is just too easy to do that with since it doesn’t require you to build an alternative and is often right in some aspect so you can get validation.
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Re:GitHub Copilot X: The AI-powered developer experience by kreas on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @10:58AM (#35262062)
I would say this about most developers not just HN. It took years for me to break that mindset.
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Re:GitHub Copilot X: The AI-powered developer experience by vintermann on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @10:54AM (#35261988)
If you think that you should see what Slashdot is like these days, lol.
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Re:GitHub Copilot X: The AI-powered developer experience by qgin on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @01:25PM (#35264261)
It's definitely not considered high status here to be positive about anything
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