When you lose the ability to write, you also lose some of your ability to think

Re:When you lose the ability to write, you also lose some of... by lordnacho on Thursday May 11, 2023 @01:39AM (#35898049)

I'm surprised about copilot. I find every day it saves me time by "nexting" whatever I'm doing. Whenever it's right about what I wanted to write, I save a bit of time.

My go-to example is if conditions. When I start with the first case, it almost always figures out the rest of the cases correctly.

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Re:When you lose the ability to write, you also lose some of... by arvinsim on Thursday May 11, 2023 @01:42AM (#35898086)

I thought Github Copilot was useless until I found out that I have to wait for a few seconds for Copilot to display the autosuggested code.

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Re:When you lose the ability to write, you also lose some of... by javchz on Thursday May 11, 2023 @03:40AM (#35899031)

I think copilot it's amazing saving time in boilerplate code.

But I can understand why some workflows may be a liability rather than help. Similar to chatgpt sometimes allusinate code with reserved words that don't exist in the language (but exists in others), or uses old code from a deprecated api / version of your framework.

In other words, somtimes the cleaning process can take as much time, as just writing the code yourself.

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