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Copilot by Github x OpenAI — Your AI pair programmer
GitHub Copilot works alongside you directly in your editor, suggesting whole lines or entire functions for you. Powered by OpenAI its trained on billions of lines of public code, saving you time and helping you stay focused.
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Chris Messina
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Just as there's about to be a programmer shortage, it looks like the robots are coming to save us!
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Looks like the biggest jump in programming since object oriented programming 😅
If works as promised, it will speed up my development process big times!
Can't wait to give it a try
Congrats!!
I’m personally skeptical how this works because if it makes too many mistakes, like these GPTs often tend to do, it’s probably just faster to write it manually. In my opinion this is not kind of problem that should or could be solved with GPT-3 but some later version that’s much smarter.
This frees up a lot of time while writing code.
Instead, time is better spent on things like choosing better names and adding tests.
@mbalamat if you're just getting started, it's probably 10%. I'm sure Copilot learns more all the time, but more importantly you as a developer might try to pick up better names for functions to make it work correctly. :)
@rodrigo_arenas I'm guessing it's going to be VSCode only for a long time considering Microsoft owns GitHub
It definitely saved me typing up some lines, specially getter, setter methods. I was also astonished a couple of times when it predicted a bit more complex (few lines of code) methods correctly. What it cannot save is the need for reviewing the code it generates, since it needs correcting more often than not. I feel that if it gets way better, I will be more like a reviewer of my code that it's developer, costing me the detailed understanding of my own code base.
An exiting addition to programing. Not a tool to forgo developers but something to save time and speed up processes. Or at least thats the vision.