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That's the bar now? Some tech is great if the average human is worse at it?
by yusina 1y ago
That's the bar now? Some tech is great if the average human is worse at it?
- Dylan16807 1y agoThere are lots of bars depending on context. But being better than an average human is usually one of the higher bars.
- catlifeonmars 1y agoWell it depends. For example, calculators have been around for a while and a calculator that only performs better than the average human is not very useful. Sorting algorithms are another example. Autocomplete/intellisense in an IDE is probably the most salient example. An autocomplete that performs _as well_ as the average programmer is, well, totally useless.
- Dylan16807 1y agoI'm not sure what you mean. Autocomplete usually just gives a big list of options for the next word, so even getting the most relevant ones to the top would be helpful in less-memorized codebases, and actually filling out entire lines as well as an average programmer is not useless at all.
- catlifeonmars 1y agoOh I agree about filling out entire lines. I use copilot to write boilerplate based on a template pattern I provide all the time. It’s not very precise though. Autocomplete will give me a list of valid APIs for current given version of any library sorted by most recently used with a locality bonus. Copilot on the other hand does not have that level of precision. Two different tools that I use for slightly different things.