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Re:Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already by cageface on Sunday May 21, 2023 @12:24AM (#36018016)
My experience with Github copilot is that the time it saves me typing out boilerplate has been more than lost when I have to spend time carefully debugging bugs in the code it produces. And those are the bugs I catch right away.

I expect this will improve but it's certainly not always the case that checking something is cheaper or easier than generating it in the first place.

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Re:Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already by LouisSayers on Sunday May 21, 2023 @01:12AM (#36018200)
I was torn on Copilot - it seemed like it was saving me time, but I found myself getting way more value out of just copy / pasting code into GPT4.

So I decided to stop my copilot subscription and just see how I go without it.

I've been off copilot for a few days now and other than having to do more code lookups it's not a terrible experience not having it. It does feel like something that should be baked into the IDE for free though.

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