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Think of it as a junior dev working under you and doing the grunt work of typing in your ideas. Sometimes he can StackOverflow a better snippet than you can wri
by manquer 5y ago
Think of it as a junior dev working under you and doing the grunt work of typing in your ideas. Sometimes he can StackOverflow a better snippet than you can write on your own, you will probably learn a bit from it, but it won't surprise you.
It is no different from a code review of another perhaps junior dev and only doing adding finishing touches.
There is plenty of boilerplate you have to write, Intellisense/ Auotfill only goes so far, this is next step in the evolution. Sure it is not perfect but if i can express my ideas faster, why not.
Also It is a very probably poor tool for new devs, they won't know that suggestion maybe not the best and probably won't ignore it when it is wrong as they won't know any better.
- asdfman123 5y agoMost people on HN will probably be fine for a while. This innovation though, once properly developed, could completely screw over anyone wanting to enter programming. Code completion might be the new "junior dev."
- manquer 5y agoAll the computer scientists[1] at one point considered software developers and IT in the same light as higher level tooling evolved . While sure purist view is not wrong that average quality of outcome has dropped since 70s-80s, the quantum of throughput meant that impact has been positive and immense. Similarly I am expecting this kind of tooling would open up to more types of new developers. [1] all the mathematicans thought similarly perhaps during 50s and 60s.