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Re:Ask HN: Can Devin genuinely replace the roles of developers? by dotdi on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @05:11AM (#40208795)
I agree. I've been using Copilot for several months now, and the only thing it (almost) consistently helps me with is predicting relatively trivial snippets.

Anecdotally, I've had it mispredict from very simple contexts, such as skipping numbers in series' where the pattern should've been extremely obvious.

I've had it sneak in sublte and obvious bugs on a regular basis, to an extent where I don't have much confidence beyond any code I can grasp in a single look and be confident it's correct. Sorry bros, I'm not on the hype train this time. Feels like crypto all over again.

Re:Ask HN: Can Devin genuinely replace the roles of developers? by solumunus on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @02:55PM (#40214776)
I switched to Supermaven and in my experience it’s at least 2x Copilot. Might be worth a try.