Who is worried about GitHub copilot and the possible implications in the future? 1,2,3 go!

Wtf is with the tags

wut?

@N00bPancakes It is an AI that helps you writes code and comments as you go, if you don't know about it.

Copilot is designed to help you code.

IBMs codeNet on the other hand is what you should be getting your tinfoil hat twisted over.

https://research.ibm.com/blog/...

It's an AI learning how to code to replace devs.

I quote:
Computer scientists have been long fascinated by the possibility of computers programming computers. Can AI make it easier to understand, develop, and deploy code - the language of machines? It can, but it hasn’t been easy to get it to do so.

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I'll take the GitHub version.

I hope it has an avatar that's in your screen at all times and offers assistance every time you type 1 character, change files, or click anything.

Don't sweat it the nature of most human problems make it very hard for AI to code, as developers we provide solutions to relational issues not technical sth that I think AI still can't understand, as an example think bitcoin , if you really look at it , the technology isn't really about enhancing transaction efficiency but enhancing trust.

If this AI is trained on public lines of code, it'll also make common mistakes.

I wouldn't trust an AI to make a perfect program without any weird mistakes, as AI often likes to do.

It may speed up coding of some common languages / frameworks. For other things it might be more bothersome anyway and slow down coding since it'll boil down to the developer checking the code and more often than not, rewriting it anyways.

Might improve commenting. Whether stating the intent of the code rather than explaining the What & Why is to be debated though.

I'm not worried.

Not sure, but it might also copy portions of code from its samples.

I think enterprises won't like of they suddenly have code that they don't know the licence of. I can imagine some hilarious court cases where copilot used samples heavly based on some project with a GPL or similar.

Never losing my job because client are mostly idiots

Not worried, i need it !!!

I'm so tired to write the almost same shit every time.

//go fetch shit and apply that shit

=> code => manual editing => win.

I want to test it with c# so much, but only support VS code I think for now

@C0D4 wow! that definitely sounds more aggressive 😂 thanks for the info! Didn’t have a clue that existed

If this AI autofill thing gets the data right from Github repo, it will be such a pleasure for me to keep commiting my bunch of garbage. And maybe every others should do that hheehe.

This sounds like a fucking lifesaver! I HATE mundane shit like writing imports, iterating through data structures, simple data fetches etc. it won’t replace devs bc most of what it does seems to be mindless legwork