Re:GitHub Copilot X: The AI-powered developer experience
by mewpmewp2 on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @04:43PM
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Based on my own productivity, and how strong the tools seem to be, then I presume current increase in the value is still too very low. These tools would eventually reduce workforce costs by 90% at the very least in my view. To me it seems like most people don't truly understand how things are going to change now.
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Re:GitHub Copilot X: The AI-powered developer experience
by vlunkr on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @05:12PM
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Maybe when they become much much more sophisticated. Right now they reduce time spent write boilerplate and looking at docs. How much of you overall time is spent on those tasks now? For most devs its not much. Significant time is spent reading code to understand program architecture, investigating bugs caused by obscure edge cases, refactoring or extending functionality without breaking everything. Copilot doesn't even scratch the surface of those yet.
Re:GitHub Copilot X: The AI-powered developer experience
by DeathArrow on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @06:06PM
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It can find bugs, suggest fixes, write tests and do PRs.
Re:GitHub Copilot X: The AI-powered developer experience
by mewpmewp2 on Thursday March 23, 2023 @04:26PM
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I am very certain it has 5x my productivity already. But I have been practicing and using it pretty much 24/7 and as well on weekends. I think in 6 months it is so for everyone in very many fields.
It also helps me understand new codebases in languages that I am not familiar with.
In addition it is good for refactoring and can spot bugs.
I use combination of chatgpt in editor and copilot. And I have ChatGPT one shortkey away as an os app.