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0 pointsstevage1y ago0 comments

Huh, for me it's the opposite. It does the boring bit, writing pedestrian method bodies. Writing import statements. Closing tags.

I do the fun bit: having creative ideas and trying them out.

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Piskvorrr1y ago

Looks like you haven't used a decent IDE: these things have been standard for decades, locally and with minimal requirements. But wait, now it happens in the Cloud (meh, that's not gonna fly anymore, too last decade)...AND requires massive amounts of power AND cooling, PLUS it's FUBAR about 50/50.

For an incremental improvement...not great, not terrible.

habinero1y ago

I think LLMs are vastly overhyped and mostly useless, but I use Copilot as glorified autocomplete and like it.

It does what the other poster said: it automates the boring parts of "this db model has eight fields that are mostly what you expect" and it autocompletes them mostly accurately.

That's not something an IDE does.

edanm1y ago

You're really comparing an IDE's autocomplete with something that can, at minimum, write out entire functions for you?

You're either completely misremembering what IDEs have been able to do up until 3 years ago, or completely misunderstanding what is available now. Even the very basic "autocomplete" functionality of IDEs is meaningfully better now.

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