Re:Teaching Programming in the Age of ChatGPT
by slashdev on Thursday July 20, 2023 @08:13AM
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I can’t believe you canceled copilot, at $10 a month it pays for itself every single day for me. I’m just baffled how it can be so useful for me and not useful for you.
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Re:Teaching Programming in the Age of ChatGPT
by __loam on Thursday July 20, 2023 @01:36PM
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Once you get over the novelty it gets pretty annoying.
Re:Teaching Programming in the Age of ChatGPT
by slashdev on Friday July 21, 2023 @08:24AM
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I’ve been using it for a full year now, that’s just not been my experience.
Re:Teaching Programming in the Age of ChatGPT
by TillE on Thursday July 20, 2023 @06:36PM
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I've found it extremely similar to IntelliCode for C#, which is not very impressive. Surprisingly I've found it does a better job of writing accurate comments than generating useful code.
Maybe it's good for some languages, or for code that's doing the exact stuff a hundred people have already written. Copilot X certainly looks cool, but who knows when that'll be ready.
Re:Teaching Programming in the Age of ChatGPT
by slashdev on Friday July 21, 2023 @08:19AM
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I use it the other way around. I write the comments first and then I find it can often fill in the code.
I find it especially helpful with SQL queries, and with boilerplate type code. It’s also very helpful when I’d need to lookup the usage of various methods. I just start with the comments and most of the time it saves me the context switch to the browser to lookup the usage.