New GitHub Copilot research finds 'downward pressure on code quality'

Re:New GitHub Copilot research finds 'downward pressure on c... by blibble on Sunday January 28, 2024 @05:50PM (#39170677)

> and therefore don't know what's considered best practice in browser-land.

wanting this is probably the worst possible use case for LLM code vomit

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Re:New GitHub Copilot research finds 'downward pressure on c... by mvdtnz on Sunday January 28, 2024 @06:17PM (#39170884)

I feel like if I ever try something less trivial than generating a wedding speech in the style of HP Lovecraft some AI evangelist tells me I've chosen the wrong use case for an LLM.

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Re:New GitHub Copilot research finds 'downward pressure on c... by chipotle_coyote on Sunday January 28, 2024 @08:16PM (#39171731)

That is because you have already found the ideal use case for one.

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Re:New GitHub Copilot research finds 'downward pressure on c... by ben_w on Sunday January 28, 2024 @06:24PM (#39170927)

For a sense of scale, the last time my JS knowledge was close to familiar with the best practices of the day, was 1-1.5 years prior to the release of jQuery.

I way trying to say how ChatGPT is good in relative terms, not absolute.

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