Copilot is great. It often does stupid stuff, but I’ve learned to guide it by structuring my code or writing comments in a particular way. It’s very helpful for repetitive tasks. Mostly I like that it fills in stuff that is busy work and frees me up to spend more time on the creative aspect.
It is more like an assistant (at best) - not a replacement for developers... not now, and not in the foreseeable future either... for the same basic reasons as self-driving cars.
Remember self-driving cars? Self-driving trucks? Where are they? You ever hear about them any more?
The con artists pushing the hype vastly over-promised and under-delivered once they finally began to understand (during testing) how complex the task of driving a car in traffic really is. Remember the self-driving car that ran over and killed a pedestrian?
In a rare fit of honesty, one of the AI "researchers" admitted that the only way to get self-driving cars to work was to create special roads lined with sensors and simplified traffic patterns... in other words, roads as train tracks... which is not going to happen.
Then all of the AI bullshit quietly faded away, with the fraudsters hoping everyone would just forget about all the hype and promises, etc...
I bring this up as an example of technological fads that periodically come and go, milking as much money as they can from the gullible every time.
Copilot is great. It often does stupid stuff, but I’ve learned to guide it by structuring my code or writing comments in a particular way. It’s very helpful for repetitive tasks. Mostly I like that it fills in stuff that is busy work and frees me up to spend more time on the creative aspect.
It is more like an assistant (at best) - not a replacement for developers... not now, and not in the foreseeable future either... for the same basic reasons as self-driving cars.
Remember self-driving cars? Self-driving trucks? Where are they? You ever hear about them any more?
The con artists pushing the hype vastly over-promised and under-delivered once they finally began to understand (during testing) how complex the task of driving a car in traffic really is. Remember the self-driving car that ran over and killed a pedestrian?
In a rare fit of honesty, one of the AI "researchers" admitted that the only way to get self-driving cars to work was to create special roads lined with sensors and simplified traffic patterns... in other words, roads as train tracks... which is not going to happen.
Then all of the AI bullshit quietly faded away, with the fraudsters hoping everyone would just forget about all the hype and promises, etc...
I bring this up as an example of technological fads that periodically come and go, milking as much money as they can from the gullible every time.
Well said.
Human beings are both emotional and logical. You cannot use 1’s and 0’s to replace us.
This is interesting, I haven't looked into this yet.
GitHub Copilot uses the OpenAI Codex to suggest code and entire functions in real-time, right from your editor.
https://github.com/features/copilot/