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Copilot is great, as is gpt-4. I use it as search engine, to give me pointers about parts of the docs I might’ve missed. I have never not modified and refactor
by moi2388 3y ago
Copilot is great, as is gpt-4.
I use it as search engine, to give me pointers about parts of the docs I might’ve missed.
I have never not modified and refactored the code before implementing it.
- eggdaft 3y agoI also see LLMs primarily as a better search engine. Stack overflow gave us code snippets and was a huge step forward. Now we can find those snippets and explanations much faster. The secondary use is as a duck to bounce ideas off. A duck that is not as smart as a human but always available. And I can ask stupid questions to check my understanding. The final use is for code generation. If I’m super tired it can do trivial coding for me. Or if it’s boilerplate, which is very little code for me. Generally it doesn’t help a great deal within the IDE, and I’m not completely sure it’s a net win there yet.