3 ms·
Is this really anything more than a curiosity toy and a marketing tool? I took a look at their examples and they are not at all compelling. In one example it g
by deckard1 5y ago
Is this really anything more than a curiosity toy and a marketing tool?
I took a look at their examples and they are not at all compelling. In one example it generated SQL and somehow knew the columns and tables in a database that it had no context on. So that's a lot of smoke and mirrors going on right there.
Do many developers actually want to work in this manner? That is, being interrupted every time they type with a robot interjection of some Frankenstein code that they now have to go through and review and understand. Personally, this is going to kick me out of the zone/flow too often to be useful. Coding isn't the hard part of my job. If this tool can somehow guess the business requirements of the task at hand, then I'll be impressed.
Even if the tool generates accurate code, if I don't fully understand what it wrote, then what? I'm still stuck digging through documentation and stackoverflow to verify that whatever is in my text editor is correct code. "Code confidently in unfamiliar territory" sounds like a Boeing 737 Max sized disaster in the making.