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Someone else on here said it was a glorified tab complete that was really nice and that seems to be my impression too. It looks productive but it doesn't look
by emodendroket 5y ago
Someone else on here said it was a glorified tab complete that was really nice and that seems to be my impression too. It looks productive but it doesn't look like it totally changes the nature of programming to me.
- tylersmith 5y agoThe Copilot positioning seems to have led people to pretty large expectations. "A better tab completion" is the exact positioning used by competitor TabNine and that leads to expectation-beating performance from a very useful tool thay isn't promising to fundamentally change software development.
- amelius 5y agoYeah, this reminds me of Tesla's Autopilot, which is also setting unrealistic expectations. "Fake it till you make it"?
- emodendroket 5y agoI haven't seen any comparisons yet between TabNine and Copilot and I would be interested to see them.
- iratewizard 5y agoI haven't seen anything out of copilot's autocomplete that would take a senior dev more than 4 minutes to whip up. When I was a lead, things that took up the most time were logic errors that needed to be chased down and fundamental design decisions that needed to be made. I only see copilot creating more of the former and railroading the latter.