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footurist t1_j329a5h wrote

Reply to comment by Left-Shopping-9839 in 2022 was the year AGI arrived (Just don't call it that) by sideways

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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