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Some of these points may be true, but as someone who just started using Copilot at a new job, on an unfamiliar code base and programming language, it's been a l
by Carrok 2y ago
Some of these points may be true, but as someone who just started using Copilot at a new job, on an unfamiliar code base and programming language, it's been a lifesaver.
Obviously you have to read the code to make sure it makes sense, and much of the work is deleting the main bit of functionality it attempted to implement, and re-implementing it correctly.
However, having it autocomplete entire function definitions, including all the {} () => | : `${x.y}` fiddly bits, sure saves a lot of time.
The one point I don't agree with at all is `Dependency on Proprietary Tools` there are already plenty of open source alternatives, and these will only improve with time.
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- regularfry 2y agoFrom the point of view of corporate use, there absolutely isn't an open source alternative. At least, not yet. The critical feature, which also counts out some paid tools, is the ability to avoid regurgitating training data into your codebase. GitHub has the raw dataset to be able to offer that (and the legal indemnification that comes with it). I don't know of any open source system that can offer the same, even in principle.