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May I ask if you have tried using Copilot? Because this sounds exactly like the kind of response I would have had half a year ago. It makes many mistakes and ca
by kristiandupont 4y ago
May I ask if you have tried using Copilot? Because this sounds exactly like the kind of response I would have had half a year ago. It makes many mistakes and can by no means write code by itself. But that doesn't change the fact that it's orders of magnitude better at it than I thought possible.
- copenja 4y agoI'm not the parent post and I have not tried autopilot, but I do have a question. Does autopilot make you orders of magnitude more productive?
- kristiandupont 4y agoNo, it does not.
- AlotOfReading 4y agoOne issue with copilot is that debugging broken code is far harder than writing it in the first place. We've seen similar transitions before though. When good optimizing compilers started appearing you had plenty of programmers like Mel [1] that said 'there's no art in it, a compiler couldn't do the kind of optimizations I do'. And yeah, it's true, but compilers got good enough that 99% of people stopped caring and hardcore optimization became a niche skill few people have. What does the industry look like when all that most programmers know is debugging generated code and what kinds of tools need to exist to support that? [1] http://catb.org/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html http://catb.org/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html