People are amazed with Github Copilot and I don't get why. I shut it off. It's mostly annoying.
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Yes thank you. I code slower when i try to use it because I'm examining every chunk it throws at me to figure out if that's really what i wanted
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Sometimes it is but it's usually not groundbreaking stuff, and it doesn't make up for all the times it isn't and I'm reading its boneheaded missed guess
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It’s great if you’re coding in a language you don’t actually know
e.g. it makes me, a humble python programmer, into a html/js/css “full stack” behemoth
Also it’s just pretty good at saving you from having to think through complicated array index BS
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I tried it out initially, shut it off, then eventually got back into it and vibing with it now. It's still kinda shitty a lot of the time but I think it genuinely is improving my productivity at this point. Using it is kind of a skill like learning how to google things properly