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Yes, I feel like it is much better than HN has given it credit for in earlier discussions. But that may be influenced by the fact that I only started using it r
by vintermann 4y ago
Yes, I feel like it is much better than HN has given it credit for in earlier discussions. But that may be influenced by the fact that I only started using it relatively recently; I've probably mostly seen it at its best.
Also, I have no illusions about how language models work. I notice that the sloppier the code I'm editing, the worse suggestions (and dumber comments) it suggests. If I start writing a comment and copilot immediately suggests "TODO: delete this", that's a better indicator of poor code health than any metric I know about. It's not a magic wand, but it can be extremely useful if you use it sensibly.
Then again, you can just decide to forget how it works and ask it questions directly in comments:
// Hey GPT3, write me a poem
// ANSWER:
It's not sensible, but it's great fun.
- Kiro 4y agoYou're being too kind on the HN crowd. We're usually extremely pessimistic for no good reason and useless at predicting things. It seems like we just love to hate on stuff.
- vintermann 4y agoIf you think that you should see what Slashdot is like these days, lol.
- acdha 4y agoPeople here love hot takes, especially if it stakes out a contrarian position as the smart one. Criticizing the big players is just too easy to do that with since it doesn’t require you to build an alternative and is often right in some aspect so you can get validation.
- kreas 4y agoI would say this about most developers not just HN. It took years for me to break that mindset.
- qgin 4y agoIt's definitely not considered high status here to be positive about anything