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My experience with it programming has been atrocius. It keeps making the same mistakes, writing NPEs everywhere and still doing it after I tell it many times ho

My experience with it programming has been atrocius. It keeps making the same mistakes, writing NPEs everywhere and still doing it after I tell it many times how it was wrong (short memory?). Copilot is backed by it too now and I had a better autocomplete of constants with Sorbet than Copilot. Again, in my experience it's not usable if not for the super mainstream and simplest tasks. The biggest issue is that it writes this with utmost confidence, at least on the surface, because there is no measure of how confident it is returned by the model.

mkaic 4y ago
> Copilot is backed by it too now Do you have a source for this? I've been wondering when they'd switch CoPilot over to GPT-4. I didn't expect it would happen so soon, so I'm surprised.
- aledalgrande 4y ago
  https://github.com/features/copilot https://github.com/features/copilot subtitle > GitHub Copilot uses the OpenAI Codex to suggest code and entire functions in real-time, right from your editor. (not sure if it's 4 or 3 tho)
  - hn2017 4y ago
    wiki is your friend. 3.0. i don't think it's been updated to 3.5 or 4.0 yet based on GH discussions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GitHub_Copilot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GitHub_Copilot GitHub Copilot is powered by the OpenAI Codex,[10] which is a modified, production version of the Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3 (GPT-3), a language model using deep-learning to produce human-like text.[11]
random_cynic 4y ago
Maybe stop treating it like an intern and learn some prompt engineering (there are good tools out there).
- laserbeam 4y ago
  To be fair, sometimes prompt engineering works with interns as well. But in that context we call it "social skills".
- aledalgrande 4y ago
  If I have to spend 15 minutes writing a prompt and then another 10 making sure there's no bugs in the output, I might as well write the code myself. I only use it for menial tasks, not advanced ones. Anyway don't really understand your tone/reference to an intern?

mkaic 4y ago

> Copilot is backed by it too now Do you have a source for this? I've been wondering when they'd switch CoPilot over to GPT-4. I didn't expect it would happen so soon, so I'm surprised.

aledalgrande 4y ago
https://github.com/features/copilot https://github.com/features/copilot subtitle > GitHub Copilot uses the OpenAI Codex to suggest code and entire functions in real-time, right from your editor. (not sure if it's 4 or 3 tho)
- hn2017 4y ago
  wiki is your friend. 3.0. i don't think it's been updated to 3.5 or 4.0 yet based on GH discussions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GitHub_Copilot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GitHub_Copilot GitHub Copilot is powered by the OpenAI Codex,[10] which is a modified, production version of the Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3 (GPT-3), a language model using deep-learning to produce human-like text.[11]

random_cynic 4y ago

Maybe stop treating it like an intern and learn some prompt engineering (there are good tools out there).

laserbeam 4y ago
To be fair, sometimes prompt engineering works with interns as well. But in that context we call it "social skills".
aledalgrande 4y ago
If I have to spend 15 minutes writing a prompt and then another 10 making sure there's no bugs in the output, I might as well write the code myself. I only use it for menial tasks, not advanced ones. Anyway don't really understand your tone/reference to an intern?