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Re:Compiling C to Safe Rust, Formalized by dhosek on Saturday December 21, 2024 @02:40AM (#42478092)
Given that in my (small, employer-mandated) explorations with Copilot autocompletions it’s offered incorrect suggestions about a third of the time and seems to like to also suggest deprecated APIs, I’m skeptical about the current generation’s ability to be useful at even this small task.
Re:Compiling C to Safe Rust, Formalized by glouwbug on Saturday December 21, 2024 @10:59AM (#42480380)
Sure but it takes two copilots to fly a plane
Re:Compiling C to Safe Rust, Formalized by LeFantome on Saturday December 21, 2024 @12:23PM (#42480910)
Have you seen O3?

If your experience with something less than half as good as state-of-the-art is that it worked 66% of the time, I am not sure why you would be so dismissive about the future potential.