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These examples of producing known algorithms in response to function signatures make it seem to me like Copilot is an intelligent, vendoring "package manager",

by tazjin 4y ago

These examples of producing known algorithms in response to function signatures make it seem to me like Copilot is an intelligent, vendoring "package manager", not something that solves problems by itself. The perceived productivity boost that people get from it could be interpreted as a condemnation of how verbose a lot of coding still is even in known areas. Lots of brain cycles wasted on doing things suboptimally that we can already do optimally.

vbezhenar 4y ago
The difference is that package management hides packages somewhere deep and you're not supposed to care about code quality. If it popular and works, good enough. Copilot puts terrible code snippets right before your eyes and you'll spend more time making it better and fixing bugs rather than writing that code from scratch. I tried copilot and for me it's not ready yet. I guess my issue is that I don't like average code and copilot was trained on that code, so it's as good as average coder and that bar is not high. Or I'm too picky and high-minded, doesn't matter, the result is the same.
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