Teaching Programming in the Age of ChatGPT

Re:Teaching Programming in the Age of ChatGPT by TillE on Thursday July 20, 2023 @06:36PM (#36807700)

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.

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Re:Teaching Programming in the Age of ChatGPT by slashdev on Friday July 21, 2023 @08:19AM (#36812951)

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.

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