Comment on OpenAI Gives ChatGPT a Better ‘Memory’
abhibeckert@lemmy.world 4 months ago// write a function to invert a string
That’s not how I use it at all. I mean I started out doing that, but these days it’s more like this (for anyone who hasn’t used copilot, the grey italic text is the auto-generated code - tab to accept, or just type over it to ignore it):
Sure - I totally could have written the constructor. But it would have taken longer, and I probably would’ve made a few typos.
eager_eagle@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I second this. GH Copilot for coding is an amazing tool, not just for boilerplate, but to fill complementary logic, brainstorm test cases, rewriting and refactoring, reducing typos or “copy and paste” errors, documentation, prototyping code from a human-written description, and probably other things.
Makes me wonder what people that don’t find it useful are trying to do with it. Sure you’ll probably need or want to change some things, but that’s miles ahead of having to write it from zero.