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There is making things, and there is making things as if you have a decade of experience in every single tool and framework and library that you’re using. The l
by acchow 3y ago
There is making things, and there is making things as if you have a decade of experience in every single tool and framework and library that you’re using. The latter feels way better.
ChatGPT and Copilot makes the programming experience feel like the latter. Despite me having never used any of these libraries or tools before. The code just flows out smoothly.
- wryanzimmerman 3y agoThis does not match my experience… Copilot produces code that I would be fine with coming from a junior, but I’ve never seen it do something more than one or two lines that doesn’t have serious issues or bad practices. Copilot seems to have vacuumed up all the “quick hack to make this work” code from blogspam and bootcamp-final-project type open source repos, but I’m in an area absolutely flooded with that kind of code (typescript/react) so maybe it’s better with other kinds of code. Typescript/react is so bad now that google searches often return blog posts full of confidence and issues. A few times it’s generated bugs that I couldn’t even catch by reading but it blows up spectacularly when scaled up even a little bit.