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Explains why tools like Copilot seems to be so hyped, yet I as an old school developer really can't find a place where it would help me. I guess most people re
by sph 3y ago
Explains why tools like Copilot seems to be so hyped, yet I as an old school developer really can't find a place where it would help me.
I guess most people really benefit from a tool to autogenerate an Erathostenes sieve in Python or a fizzbuzz function in Prolog or yet another React Router boilerplate.
EDIT: a more nuanced version of this comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38965283 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38965283
- mijamo 3y agoI do really benefit from finally having a way to use shell scripting. Life is too short to remember hundreds of one letter options with obscure combinations
- sph 3y agoBack in my day, man pages and --help were enough. The thing about great documentation is that it rarely hallucinates.
- throwaway5959 3y agoI imagine you slapping your knee as you started typing that. :)
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- speedgoose 3y agoIt’s just a bit more slow.
- democracy 3y agoCopilot is great to do boilerplate, it guesses and completes code correctly most of the time