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This - it is tremendously valuable to me and I use it all the time at work.
by inglor 5y ago
This - it is tremendously valuable to me and I use it all the time at work.
- skybrian 5y agoWhat do you use it for?
- inglor 5y agoCoding, I actually had to forbid it today in a course I teach because it solves all the exercises :) (given unit tests with titles students needed to fill those tests in)
- singlow 5y agoIsn't that just because others have stored solutions to these problems in GitHub?
- iamcurious 5y agoThat is my question too. Is it a fancier autocomplete? Or does it reason about code?
- robbedpeter 5y agoIt reasons over the semantic network between tokens, in a feedforward inference pass over the 2k(ish) words or tokens of the prompt. Sometimes that reasoning is superficial and amounts to probabilistic linear relationships, but it can go deeply abstract depending on training material, runtime/inference parameters, and context of the prompt.
- PeterisP 5y agoIn some sense you could think of as a fancy autocomplete which uses not only code but also comments as input, looks up previous solutions for the same problem but (mostly) appropriately replaces the variable names to those that you are using.
- inglor 5y agoProbably, also I’m sure 99%+ of the code I author isn’t groundbreaking and someone did it before.
- worldsayshi 5y agoBut what about the potential for intellectual property problems?
- trothamel 5y agoThat's beside the point, which is that the output copilot produces is useful.
- worldsayshi 5y agoI don't see how that's besides the point. How can it be that useful if the output is a such legal mystery? I'd love to use it but not when there's such a risk of compromising the code base.
- gjs278 5y agonobody is even going to see your codebase and nobody cares to enforce it even if they did