Did GitHub Copilot really increase my productivity?
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Yuxuan Shui[^]:
I had free access to GitHub Copilot for about a year, I used it, got used to it, and slowly started to take it for granted, until one day it was taken away
Because your mileage always varies
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Yuxuan Shui[^]:
I had free access to GitHub Copilot for about a year, I used it, got used to it, and slowly started to take it for granted, until one day it was taken away
Because your mileage always varies
Similar to get used to drive for a long while with an automatic geared motor and then go back to manual clutch and gears.
M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Similar to get used to drive for a long while with an automatic geared motor and then go back to manual clutch and gears.
M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
For many, this would be like using Resharper and then having it removed. Or, can you imagine suddenly having no Intellisense!?! :rolleyes: I (and most of you probably) remember the old days of looking at the Windows API tool to figure out the params that a method took. Lessee...what does the WNDCLASS Struct have in it?
typedef struct tagWNDCLASSA {
UINT style;
WNDPROC lpfnWndProc;
int cbClsExtra;
int cbWndExtra;
HINSTANCE hInstance;
HICON hIcon;
HCURSOR hCursor;
HBRUSH hbrBackground;
LPCSTR lpszMenuName;
LPCSTR lpszClassName;
} WNDCLASSA, *PWNDCLASSA, *NPWNDCLASSA, *LPWNDCLASSA;Or yeah, how about CreateWindow which you use all the time? :laugh:
HWND CreateWindowA(
[in, optional] lpClassName,
[in, optional] lpWindowName,
[in] dwStyle,
[in] x,
[in] y,
[in] nWidth,
[in] nHeight,
[in, optional] hWndParent,
[in, optional] hMenu,
[in, optional] hInstance,
[in, optional] lpParam
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For many, this would be like using Resharper and then having it removed. Or, can you imagine suddenly having no Intellisense!?! :rolleyes: I (and most of you probably) remember the old days of looking at the Windows API tool to figure out the params that a method took. Lessee...what does the WNDCLASS Struct have in it?
typedef struct tagWNDCLASSA {
UINT style;
WNDPROC lpfnWndProc;
int cbClsExtra;
int cbWndExtra;
HINSTANCE hInstance;
HICON hIcon;
HCURSOR hCursor;
HBRUSH hbrBackground;
LPCSTR lpszMenuName;
LPCSTR lpszClassName;
} WNDCLASSA, *PWNDCLASSA, *NPWNDCLASSA, *LPWNDCLASSA;Or yeah, how about CreateWindow which you use all the time? :laugh:
HWND CreateWindowA(
[in, optional] lpClassName,
[in, optional] lpWindowName,
[in] dwStyle,
[in] x,
[in] y,
[in] nWidth,
[in] nHeight,
[in, optional] hWndParent,
[in, optional] hMenu,
[in, optional] hInstance,
[in, optional] lpParam
);I am just really not sure. Can someone be such an advanced programmer (or such a bad programmer) that they install an AI assistant tool, and then it never prompts them with greyed-out text because they're just that good (or that bad)? I've used ReSharper AI Assistant, but I am not sure what I am getting for my $10 per month. OK, every so often it saves me a little typing here and there, but more of its sophisticated suggestions seem way off of what I'm intending to write. And, for prompting it, it seems like it's on the level of GPT 3.5...I mean, I can just hop on over to
https://chat.openai.comand type my prompt in there, and it knows tons of programming...I don't understand why I also need it inside my IDE. -
I am just really not sure. Can someone be such an advanced programmer (or such a bad programmer) that they install an AI assistant tool, and then it never prompts them with greyed-out text because they're just that good (or that bad)? I've used ReSharper AI Assistant, but I am not sure what I am getting for my $10 per month. OK, every so often it saves me a little typing here and there, but more of its sophisticated suggestions seem way off of what I'm intending to write. And, for prompting it, it seems like it's on the level of GPT 3.5...I mean, I can just hop on over to
https://chat.openai.comand type my prompt in there, and it knows tons of programming...I don't understand why I also need it inside my IDE.Inside your IDE, it has context. Suppose you have a bare bones public method and you want to validate your inputs, and then write tests to check this works as you would expect. This is a lot more convenient if it's inside the tool you are using.
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For many, this would be like using Resharper and then having it removed. Or, can you imagine suddenly having no Intellisense!?! :rolleyes: I (and most of you probably) remember the old days of looking at the Windows API tool to figure out the params that a method took. Lessee...what does the WNDCLASS Struct have in it?
typedef struct tagWNDCLASSA {
UINT style;
WNDPROC lpfnWndProc;
int cbClsExtra;
int cbWndExtra;
HINSTANCE hInstance;
HICON hIcon;
HCURSOR hCursor;
HBRUSH hbrBackground;
LPCSTR lpszMenuName;
LPCSTR lpszClassName;
} WNDCLASSA, *PWNDCLASSA, *NPWNDCLASSA, *LPWNDCLASSA;Or yeah, how about CreateWindow which you use all the time? :laugh:
HWND CreateWindowA(
[in, optional] lpClassName,
[in, optional] lpWindowName,
[in] dwStyle,
[in] x,
[in] y,
[in] nWidth,
[in] nHeight,
[in, optional] hWndParent,
[in, optional] hMenu,
[in, optional] hInstance,
[in, optional] lpParam
);raddevus wrote:
can you imagine suddenly having no Intellisense!?!
Nope. But then again, in the 90's there were books for this stuff. Can you imagine the # of books that would be needed nowadays, given the frameworks, libraries, packages? And every day UPS would drop off new books because the old books you got last week are already obsolete!
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Yuxuan Shui[^]:
I had free access to GitHub Copilot for about a year, I used it, got used to it, and slowly started to take it for granted, until one day it was taken away
Because your mileage always varies
I've been working a list of vulnerabilities reported by a code scanner. AI can supposedly look at a whitepaper and then write code to exploit a vulnerability. Can you point it at a repo and have it fix any code allowing the exploit? I'm not sure it even requires fancy AI/ML to parameterize SQL.
