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Re:New GitHub Copilot research finds 'downward pressure on c... by aleph_minus_one on Sunday January 28, 2024 @06:58PM (#39171218)
> You can tell it the code is bad and how, a lot of the times it will correct it.

For the code questions that I ask, it is sometimes quite non-trivial to check whether the code is correct or not.

It never happened in my tests that it could correct incorret code that it generated. Typically, the bot then generated code that is wrong for sometimes a different and sometimes even a similar reason.

> For some bs code that you have to write it is a great time saver.

Again I disagree: the common case where you have to write BS code is when the abstraction is wrong. Implementing a proper abstraction that strongly reduces the BS code to write is the way to go.

Re:New GitHub Copilot research finds 'downward pressure on c... by mewpmewp2 on Monday January 29, 2024 @02:58AM (#39173862)
Writing that abstraction can also feel BS.
Re:New GitHub Copilot research finds 'downward pressure on c... by web3-is-a-scam on Monday January 29, 2024 @07:46AM (#39175619)
The entire industry is BS all the way down
Re:New GitHub Copilot research finds 'downward pressure on c... by j4yav on Monday January 29, 2024 @08:51AM (#39176220)
If you get to a capacitor, you've gone too far - you may be in a power supply.