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Left-Shopping-9839 t1_j3243r8 wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in 2022 was the year AGI arrived (Just don't call it that) by sideways

If you actually do real software development you would know this isn't possible. By 'you' I mean anyone. Not specifically you. I have spent hours tracking down strange errors back to the fact that I didn't check the copilot code closely enough. It does a great job providing code that is 90% correct, but often slips in undeclared variables etc. This is not 'intelligence'. It's just an awesome code completion tool which makes a lot of mistakes but still saves a lot of typing.

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[deleted] t1_j32ca6v wrote

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Left-Shopping-9839 t1_j32drm7 wrote

Agree 100%. In my company (and I think most others are this way) your code has to pass tests. This is what is missing in the copilot model. They would need to track feedback all the way to production and applied fixes to know whether the code suggestion is good. That is the sort of learning loop which needs to be in place to even start to claim intelligence. Hopefully they are working on this. I use copilot and honestly I love it. It's not going to be replacing humans in its current iteration yet the hype train keeps rolling. LLMs are mockingbirds. They are impressively good, but still mockingbirds. DALL-E imo....is shit.

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footurist t1_j329a5h wrote

Yes, that's what I came to conclude early on when reading about this for coding.

One thing it's really, really good for though is providing a context sensitive solution ( sometimes ) to give you a head start.

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Left-Shopping-9839 t1_j32f2t0 wrote

I use copilot for everything and I love it. There are times when it spits out code that looks exactly like what I'm thinking and does it better than I could. In those moments I could easily claim the singularity has arrived. The next time it creates something that uses some library of functions that I don't even have imported and sometimes doesn't even exist LOL. So even if they work out the simple stuff, it's still a long way from being anything other than awesome code completion.

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ebolathrowawayy t1_j32k5fs wrote

I haven't used copilot but chatgpt is great for generating a starting point for libraries you've never used before. Literally better than the official docs in most cases.

Edit: Have you used both chatgpt and copilot? How do they differ for code gen?

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footurist t1_j32nl8k wrote

Yes, the inventing part can be incredibly funny. Just recently it had me fooled completely. It was making up believable functions like there's no tomorrow. "updateTargetValue", "reverseDirection". Lmao.

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