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I stopped using GitHub Copilot. Not because of the accuracy of its predictions (or potential lack thereof), but because the cognitive overhead / distraction of
by minimaxir 5y ago
I stopped using GitHub Copilot. Not because of the accuracy of its predictions (or potential lack thereof), but because the cognitive overhead / distraction of getting inline suggestions made using Copilot not strictly a net positive in productivity.
And this is before GitHub will start charging for it.
- fallat 5y agoAnd you instantly realize the code which is being returned is almost always directly from a human being who wrote it anyway.
- extheat 5y agoNot true, it's very good at one-shot learning, even from code you've written in different languages.
- minimaxir 5y agoFWIW the generations have been close to what had intended and/or follow the intended patterns, which appropriate variable names relative to the rest of the script. But from a QA perspective close isn't enough.