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It doesn’t calm to solve the bottleneck either. On the contrary, it clearly states that its mission is to solve the easy parts better so developers can focus be

• uncomputation 5y ago
  This reminds me of a startup pitch where it’s always “oh we take care of x so you don’t have to,” but the problem is now I just have another thing to take care of. I cannot speak for people who use Copilot “fluently,” but I know for every chunk of code it spat out I would need to read every line and make sure “Is this right? Is the return type what I want? Will this loop terminate? Is ‘scan’ the right API? Is that string formatted properly? Can I optimize this?” etc. To me it’s hardly “solving the easy parts,” but rather putting the passenger’s hands on the wheel.
  • gotostatement 5y ago
    Upvoted. I think the only good use case for this is spitting out 10-line, annoying, commonly used API boilerplate for commonly used APIs
    • izgzhen 5y ago
      That is a valid use case despite being small and incremental. I think it will still be helpful to some people.
  • izgzhen 5y ago
    The easy part is the copy-paste-from-SO part ;)
• naikrovek 5y ago
  if it doesn't claim to help any code production bottlenecks, then what good is it? it's just piping in code that may or may not contain a subtle bug or three. That doesn't help anyone!! I am usually pretty pro-Microsoft, but this tool is a security nightmare and a bad idea all around. It will cause many (most? all?) who use it far more work than it saves them, long-term.