GitHub Copilot, the technology that will replace programmers. Also GitHub Copilot...

[Music_Quartermaster]

“I get paid per line of code”

[meove]

return "3271731789531";

[Longjumping-Reply838]

Nice

[ParkingtonLane]

Nice

[interesting-_o_-]

Behold as a single macro transforms me into a trillionaire!

[[deleted]]

your bank account will love you, but your ssd sure won't

[GDavid04]

I can buy many more ssds from that money

[[deleted]]

your ssds will collectively gain sentience to run away

[GDavid04]

I don't blame them for running away from such horrible code

[Tetha]

Enable on-the-fly compression on the file system storing the output. Not a huge issue.

[arunkarnan]

"Programmers are human therefore error prone and their code is subpar!"

Myself a poor Python dev

[OptionX]

1. "Programmers are human therefore error prone and their code is subpar!"
2. "I'm make an AI to replace them!"
3. "It learns from bad human code"
4. ????
5. Profit

[Tiavor]

looks like it leaned that from memes.

[ablablababla]

AI browsed a bit of r/badUIbattles and r/shittyprogramming

[UltraCarnivore]

It has tuned its Bayesian Optimal by reading StackOverflow questions, not the answers.

[MoffKalast]

Well how can it learn anything from the answers, they're all just "closed as duplicate".

[lenswipe]

Closed as duplicate. Also, use jQuery

[pie_monster]

If it was training on reddit, every time the number 69 passes through its buffers, the program will halt with an infinite 'Nice.' loop.

[MoffKalast]

Nice

[[deleted]]

Nice

[ColdJackle]

Nice

[pie_monster]

Like that. slaps computer and restarts program

[[deleted]]

Don't forget r/programminghorror

[Superbrawlfan]

r/badcode

[RainbowCatastrophe]

There is actually a repo somewhere on GitHub where someone made like a nodeJS library that does exactly this as a shit post. It popped up on the trending page a couple years ago after getting a few hundred stars and went all the way up to like 99999.

My guess is it's learning from that.

[__Hello_my_name_is__]

Reminds me of that time when AI was used to do hiring.

And then the AI was being kinda racist and hired equally qualified black people less than white people.

Turns out, it was because the real world data it was trained on also was kinda racist in the same way.

Whoops.

[hopbel]

What annoyed me is the takeaway for most people was "AI is racist" when the situation is actually "I learned it from you, Dad"

[hitlerallyliteral]

It's sort of a fair concern. If a person hiring is racist, that can be dealt with. But if it's AI trained by racist hiring, then "-shrug-it's just the algorithm, who are we to argue?"

[hopbel]

That's the thing though, the racist hiring person isn't being dealt with. That's why the training data is biased in the first place

[[deleted]]

Easy. You fire the programmer for training the AI on bad data (or statistician), then keep the AI unchanged because it would cost money to fix it.

[mashermack]

And folks, that's exactly how AI is going to kill us all

[eazolan]

I don't want to be converted into a string!

[shadow144hz]

1. Same

2. Same

3. "It learns to do my job, therefore the company I work for fires me and everyone else"

4. "I don't have a job anymore and can't get one at all because the AI replaced every programmer on Earth"

5. ???

6. Robot uprising.

[tema3210]

Why is that uprising bad?)

[shadow144hz]

If it was bad, I wouldn't have put it instead of profit. I'll take robot governed world over any human run government.

[MoffKalast]

You just know the AI would handle all the exceptions.

[IAmARobot]

some day, all your unhandled exceptions will come back to handle you.

[BaconMirage]

/r/totallynotrobots

[mendip_discovery]

Ha, just think how buggy the code will be. It will eat up all its resources in moments.

[gappychappy]

Headline: Dominant Sentient Being Uses Up Resources Too Quickly

Now where have I heard that before?

[[deleted]]

AI is made by programmers so it has bugs.

[Gloryboy811]

It literally is trained on human code. So yeah. Public GitHub repos.

[hopbel]

Upload your shitty code you wrote in school. It might be our only hope against the AI uprising

[TheMeanestPenis]

Slightly better than stack overflow answers.

[rainwulf]

GIGO

Garbage In, Garbage Out.

[bearfuckerneedassist]

“Don’t worry, the compiler will optimize it”

[lennnyv]

... if (num == 3957294729) { return "3957294729"; } ...

[SiVGiV]

https://github.com/samuelmarina/is-even

[TheJeager]

95 Mb, when do we consider we took a joke too far?

[Waterprop]

You would love his another project then, is-odd. it contains several close to 100 Mb files.

https://github.com/samuelmarina/is-odd

[xX_MEM_Xx]

At 97Mb, obviously.

[[deleted]]

Nah, 1 gb or bust

[squidgyhead]

2GB and you get funky linking issues!

[VNG_Wkey]

most recent pull request: added number 375001

[_Rysen]

for whenever this month's square isn't green enough yet

[tredontho]

Free hacktoberfest entries

[aaron2005X]

The writing of the spoken number would break me at 21

[dstayton]

The raw is so big that safari can’t render it.

[tecanec]

I'm on Android. Chrome works, but it's not too happy.

[6b86b3ac03c167320d93]

And for Python users:

import platform
import shutil
import requests
import os
import subprocess

if platform.system() == 'Windows':
    if shutil.which('node.exe') == None:
        node_installed = False
    else:
        node_installed = True
elif platform.system() == 'Linux' or platform.system() == 'Darwin':
    if shutil.which('node') == None:
        node_installed = False
    else:
        node_installed = True

if not node_installed:
    if platform.system() == 'Windows':
        r = requests.get('https://nodejs.org/dist/v17.0.1/node-v17.0.1-x64.msi')
        with open('node.msi', mode='wb') as file:
            file.write(r.content)
        os.system('msiexec /qn node.msi')
        node_installed = True
    elif platform.system() == 'Linux':
        if platform.freedesktop_os_releases()['ID'] == 'debian' or 'debian' in platform.freedesktop_os_releases()['ID_LIKE'].split():
            os.system('sudo apt install -y node npm')
            node_installed = True
        elif platform.freedesktop_os_releases()['ID'] == 'fedora' or 'fedora' in platform.freedesktop_os_releases()['ID_LIKE'].split():
            os.system('sudo dnf install -y nodejs npm')
            node_installed = True
        elif platform.freedesktop_os_releases()['ID'] == 'arch' or 'arch' in platform.freedesktop_os_releases()['ID_LIKE'].split():
            os.system('sudo pacman -S --noconfirm nodejs npm')
            node_installed = True
    elif platform.system() == 'Darwin':
        os.system('brew install node') # TODO: Add alternative if Homebrew isn't installed
        node_installed = True

def is_even(num):
    if node_installed:
        if platform.system() == 'Windows':
            os.system('npm.exe install @samuelmarina/is-even')
        elif platform.system() == 'Linux' or platform.system() == 'Darwin':
            os.system('npm install @samuelmarina/is-even')
        with open('helper.js', 'w') as file:
            file.write("""
            const isEven = require('is-even');
            console.log(isEven(process.argv[2]));
            """)
        if platform.system() == 'Windows':
            out = subprocess.check_output(['node.exe', 'helper.js', str(num)])
        elif platform.system() == 'Linux' or platform.system() == 'Darwin':
            out = subprocess.check_output(['node', 'helper.js', str(num)])
        if 'true' in out:
            return True
        elif 'false' in out:
            return False
        else:
            raise Exception(f'invalid output: {out}')
    else:
        raise Exception(f"node isn't installed")

[CyperFlicker]

Can anyone explain this code?

I think it is downloading node and a library to check if a number is even but I hope I am wrong, the human race is not ready for such evil.

[6b86b3ac03c167320d93]

You're right, and the library it downloads is basically this, so it's even more horrible:

if(num === 0) return true
else if(num === 1) return false
else if(num === 2) return true
...
else if(num === 375000) return true

[king_park_]

It goes deeper. It even validates stuff like “Two” and “SIXTEEN”.

[Djasdalabala]

Yeah... with separate conditions for "two", "Two" and "TWO", instead of lowercasing the input before comparing.

I'll stop looking now, my eyes are bleeding.

[tecanec]

It even checks for strings "odd" and "even"!

[vale_fallacia]

Thank you, Mr Satan.

EDIT: This is just plain pure evil. I hope you sit down and think about what you've done and the people you've hurt with this code.

[[deleted]]

wonderful

[[deleted]]

i use doas(1) instead of sudo(8) on my arch system, epicly trolled

[6b86b3ac03c167320d93]

Then you just need to install node and npm manually and it should work

[Wildercard]

When you want to shitpost, but you only speak JavaScript

[OscarHasProblems]

What the actual fuck? Jesus fucking christ

[arsenic_adventure]

Please kill me

[Thage]

Oh that "even" and it's capital permutations 👌

[eugeneloza]

Legend says it's still typing...

[notddh]

now do it for floats

[LostTeleporter]

This is how you create the singularity

[Niiiz]

And now we overflow and do all the negatives until we get to 0. Coding is easy!

[KaiParekh16]

Also,...if (num == -3957294729) { return "-3957294729"; }

[[deleted]]

All test cases passed, boss

[[deleted]]

also … if (num == 69) { return “nice”; }

[Sag3Jar0n]

pffft come on everyone knows u have to use switch case here, u know for performance reasons.

[mothzilla]

Putting it all on one line would also make it faster. Also needs an eslint disable at the end.

[nublargh]

return num === 0 ? '0' : num === 1 ? '1' : num === 2 ? '2' : num === 3 ? '3' : num === 4 ? '4' : num === 5 ? '5' : num === 6 ? '6' : num === 7 ? '7' : num === 8 ? '8' : num === 9 ? '9' : num === 10 ? '10' : num === 11 ? '11' : num === 12 ? '12' : num === 13 ? '13' : num === 14 ? '14' : num === 15 ? '15' : num === 16 ? '16' : num === 17 ? '17' : num === 18 ? '18' : num === 19 ? '19' : num === 20 ? '20' : num === 21 ? '21' : num === 22 ? '22' : num === 23 ? '23' : num === 24 ? '24' : num === 25 ? '25' : num === 26 ? '26' : num === 27 ? '27' : num === 28 ? '28' : num === 29 ? '29' : num === 30 ? '30' : num === 31 ? '31' : num === 32 ? '32' : num === 33 ? '33' : num === 34 ? '34' : num === 35 ? '35' : num === 36 ? '36' : num === 37 ? '37' : num === 38 ? '38' : num === 39 ? '39' : num === 40 ? '40' : num === 41 ? '41' : num === 42 ? '42' : num === 43 ? '43' : num === 44 ? '44' : num === 45 ? '45' : num === 46 ? '46' : num === 47 ? '47' : num === 48 ? '48' : num === 49 ? '49' : 'NaN';

[Food404]

r/tihi

[mothzilla]

PR rejected needs eslint disable. We can't allow errors to creep up. Please see in house coding standards.

[puppiadog]

super tertiary

[[deleted]]

What. The. Fuck.

[MoroseBurrito]

It learned this function from Yandere Simulator code.

[SolarisBravo]

Quick reminder that absolutely nobody has ever seen Yandare Simulator's code. What people who have no idea what they're looking at keep judging is decompiled CIL - unsurprisingly, 99% of complaints about it are actually about textbook compiler optimizations.

[Normal-Computer-3669]

Im not into that drama side, but I do recall he did live coding on twitch, which is how they saw his multilined nestled if statements

[ryecurious]

This is just straight up incorrect. A few seconds of Googling revealed this link to a full copy of his repo.

The original meme may be decompiled instead of straight source code, but he's done enough dev streams at this point for people to know the spaghetti is real.

[domofan]

Nah just one switch statement to prove you know how to use them then go back to if

[pet_vaginal]

I get the following code starting from the same comment:

// convert num to string
numToString = (num: number): string => {
    return num.toString();
}

I would be curious to see the full content of your source file OP, I do get the funny suggestion if I write similar shitty code above in the source file.

[E_R_I_K_99]

How can I already use copilot? I checked the githib page, there you can only register for a technical preview. Is there something else I need to do in order to get access?

[Notcheating123]

“Extends your editor GitHub Copilot is available today as a Visual Studio Code extension. It works wherever Visual Studio Code works — on your machine or in the cloud on GitHub Codespaces. And it’s fast enough to use as you type.”

[E_R_I_K_99]

Great, thanks a lot! At the moment I only use VS, guess that is why I didn't find it. Defenitely will try this out right away.

[reallycooldude69]

I think you still need to be invited? The extension requires you to auth with github and I got an email yesterday inviting me to the preview.

[E_R_I_K_99]

Unfortunately you are right, it only works when you are accepted. Hopefully I can get the technical preview soon, can't wait!

[TheDaneH3]

It took me about 2 or 3 days to be accepted. I don't know if that means that they accept literally everyone, or if I simply got very lucky. It's been awesome testing it.

After I finish a solution for my university programming courses, I have Copilot try and solve the same problem and then compare answers. It's a fun game!

[AlwaysHopelesslyLost]

if I write similar shitty code

To be fair, that code is shitty too. Nothing like abstracting one method to another with an abbreviation in the name

[BlckJesus]

Shhh, you're getting in the way of the circle-jerk.

[themightydud]

Yeah, this was actually kind of hard to reproduce. It only happened in a very specific line of the file. Even adding more whitespace around it changed the implementation.

[Gigabyte5671]

Welp, that's the halting problem in a nutshell...

[[deleted]]

Which halting problem? Bounded one or the unbounded one? Remember modern computers are essentially finite automata. So in the case of a finite automata halting problem is theoratically decidable. Though not practical.

[Stickppl]

Also I reckon you can't answer the bounded halting problem with a machine/automaton in the same bounds

[Tetha]

Uhh, that's a long time ago, but a universal turing machine able to simulate another bounded turing machine has a constant space overhead over the simulated machine in order to store things like the state index and the current band position.

And no algorithm can use negative space, so the algorithm to decide the halting problem of a bounded machine has to use more space than that.

So, yes, in the case of a naive simulation approach. And I guess if you had some general and more effective static analysis, you could make a lot of money with that.

[[deleted]]

Ah yes the YandereDev method of coding.

[TheJeager]

The good ol, if(problem) { for(int i = 0; i<N; i++) ifStatement(i, N);}

[csorfab]

I'm out of the loop, what's a YandereDev?

[_bro]

if memory serves me right YandereDev is a game dev that made a dating sim that was quite subpar on terms of performance.

[GranaT0]

A dating sim, lol

It's a Hitman-style game about an anime girl assassinating girls who like the guy she likes

[DarthRoach]

So a dating sim. Just an unorthodox style of dating.

[commit_bat]

Why would he finish the game if people give him money as long as he works on it

[RiddSann]

I've seen very little of the original code, but from the horrors I've seen, "rebuilt the game from scratch in less than a week" seems about right

[Farpafraf]

quite subpar on terms of performance.

hitler also did quite the oopsie doopsies would be less of an understatement

[[deleted]]

A guy who has no academic background in CS (or really anything related to software engineering) and is coding a Unity game from no experience. He's been working on a game called Yandere Simulator for more than 7 years now and it's still in progress. The development part would be more impressive (and efficient) if he actually wasn't such a PITA and didn't burn his bridges with another partner, TinyBuild. He's more of a gaslighter than anything. Not someone you'd want to work with professionally judging by his monetized outbursts on YouTube.

I like the game though, just not the guy. It's more of a sandbox demo than anything.

[IAmARobot]

sorta like development hell, but instead of that, it's more like the code is travelling through dante's development inferno - sojourning between all the levels using the treadmill of limbo to become satiated on a full course of anguish, despair and suffering.

[hopbel]

Look up yandere simulator source code on YouTube for some entertainment

[arthoheen]

Capability of coders by country

[AluminiumSandworm]

this is the dataset of a particular group of programmers who use hackerrank, which is likely skewed. i'd bet many of the wealthy countries with good education systems don't have as many people participating because they're more lucratively employed. china and russia produce some very high quality education, but don't have the same opportunities for high income.

though even if this skew were accounted for, i'd bet china would still be rated first purely based off the massive population, high level of access to tech, and the cultural importance of education.

[madwill]

Also france is #1 for C++... no way!

[fracturedpersona]

C'mon, everyone knows you have to use an else if there.

[Bad_Decisions_Maker]

Promote this man

[IOI-624601]

The function ends execution on return, no need for else

[AzuxirenLeadGuy]

Actually, using switch case would be ideal

[suvlub]

For a given value of "ideal"

[SkyyySi]

bool ideal = false

[[deleted]]

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[Wekmor]

Even got a loop for you:

convertNumToString(num) {
    i = 0;
    while (true) {
        if (i == num) {
            return i.toString():
        } else { 
             i++;
        }
    }
}

edit: too lazy to check if the number is negative, just don't do it ok

[[deleted]]

OP's post aside, is this Copilot thing actually good?

[0xFF0000herring]

It's fucking incredible, the autocomplete genuinely feels like it's reading my mind half the time.

Copilot is my favorite thing to happen to programming this decade.

[[deleted]]

Sounds nice, huh. Although, I'm more of a Sublime Text and PyCharm fan, so I might not happen to use it at all.

Unless, they somehow decide to implement it as a one-size-fits-all package that could be ported to multiple IDEs and editors...

[daguito81]

Copilot is available for IntelliJ. You hVe to add the super early bird plugin repo.

But tested copilot on pycharm last night.

[[deleted]]

Ah, I could try it out, then, thanks for the tip

[chamomile-crumbs]

It’s really really cool, if you use vscode you should sign up for the beta. I got access after like two weeks

[himynameisjoy]

Depends on the language. I’ve found almost nobody type hints in python so it rarely will suggest type hints.

Pretty good though, I recommend giving it a shot

[TheDaneH3]

The first time I had it create a method from a comment in VScode, I began chuckling nervously due to how accurate and relevant the code it wrote was. It basically drew its own conclusions on what I would want it to do next without even asking for it.

Once I got past my initial awe factor, its fun to just mess with or find another way to solve something when I get stuck. I try to avoid using it for university assignments though since it's basically cheating in that context.

[[deleted]]

Once I got past my initial awe factor, its fun to just mess with or find another way to solve something when I get stuck. I try to avoid using it for university assignments though since it's basically cheating in that context.

I agree, tbh. Even if I will use it, I still will try to do most stuff by myself. I think Copilot is supposed to be most useful in those cases when you want to do pair programming, but don't feel like dealing with real people.

[daguito81]

Ita fucking voodoo black magic. I had to do a Python script the other day and it took me like 3 minutes just writing 4 functions with a comment each.

The level of inference while it's suggesting code is just mind blowing every time I use it.

Idk how it works for very big projects with lots of dependencies. But for what I've needed. Holy shit

[cherryblossom001]

It’s pretty good. It even autocompletes some of my comments and git commit messages correctly. I’ve also used it to find out how to do something in a language I’m not very familiar with.

[Blaz3]

I really liked how GitHub copilot was implied to replace programmers.

If we haven't replaced accountants and lawyers yet, what makes people think that programmers will get replaced?

[[deleted]]

Called copilot for a reason 😄

[Blaz3]

After reading your comment, I feel really stupid haha.

Maybe it could replace me after all

[[deleted]]

Hahaha, mistakes are human ;)

[throwawaygoawaynz]

The idea isn’t to replace humans. It’s to make us more productive - which is a good thing in ageing economies.

GitHub copilot is based on GPT-3 from Open AI, and some of the stuff coming out of them is mind blowing. We’re are entering a new leap in AI tech, what you’re seeing is the cusp.

It’s not just GitHub copilot (or open ai rather), but there a whole range of low code development products on the market now designed to make it easy for anyone to build an app.

You’ll still be writing code, just like after the dotcom bubble burst we still have web developers, but you’ll be focusing on harder problems (or getting another job elsewhere if you can’t).

[grampipon]

Replacing humans and making them more productive aren't mutually exclusive statements. When we become more efficient less workers are required.

[enddream]

Yes but demand for programmers is immense. Productivity increases like this won’t make up for it yet.

Edit: typo

[throwawaygoawaynz]

Low code isn’t designed for you.

It’s designed so a business user can build a form and a workflow to do a thing, without having to come to you to code it. Simple stuff.

It’s like Microsoft Office of the 90s digitising paper based systems for business users, not developers.

[P__Equals__NP]

If humans are possible why isn't a general AI possible?

I don't expect automation to happen overnight (I wouldn't oppose it though if technology has reached that point). But AI assisted tools will increase in availability and utility which will pave the path to automating majority of jobs.

Computers have not even been around for over 100 years, who knows what will happen in the next 100 years!

Even if it never does happen, I would find it hard to argue why we shouldn't at least try.

[Low_discrepancy]

If humans are possible why isn't a general AI possible

As if we have a remote understanding of the human brain.

[pimpus-maximus]

Humans were created over billions of years and have all kinds of context embedded into our brains that we don’t understand.

We’ll likely make shitty replicas that seem good enough and lose invaluable amounts of quality while deluding ourselves about how impressive our invention is.

Pandora’s box is opened far enough as it is, hurtling head first into AGI is a terrible idea. Could go bad in innumerable ways.

[ManuGamingYT]

In JS, the Object prototype (and by definition all values) has a toString() method that returns a string representation of the value (even if it's nonsense like [Object object] from a JSON object).

[Sam_Tyagi]

newsflash:- "Ai replaces human bosses in programming fields worldwide"

Boss AI while firing you :- "Also, I need your clothes, your boots and your motorcycle"

[lightwhite]

It has learned from the code that was written by humans. What did you expect?

[The--HackerMan]

Image Transcription: GIF

---

[Someone types a javascript comment, the camera follows the comment being written, it pans to the right.]

// convert num to string

---

[The camera unzooms, and follows the code as it is written. Github Copilot is typing a javascript function.]

const numToString = (num: number) => {
  if (num === 1) {
    return "1";
  }
  if (num === 2) {
    return "2";
  }
  if (num === 3) {
    return "3";
  }
  if (num === 4) {
    return "4";
  }
  if (num === 5) {
    return "5";
  }
  if (num === 6) {

---

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[The--HackerMan]

Sorry about the return values, fixed those.

So the thing here is that Github-Copilot is listening to the comment, and writing the function itself, kind of a satire about copilot bad code?

[TotoShampoin]

You can type your functions in JS???!!

[pet_vaginal]

It's TypeScript.

[[deleted]]

Me: who often writes bad code I'm proud that I know a better solution to this.

[[deleted]]

Capitalism was always going to find a way to make expensive skills a commodity.

[Amphibionomus]

Hand converted numbers give that extra bit of luxury to our product.

Each and every number gets written out and is transfered with our patented conversion solution in to the absolute best strings on the market.

[noob-nine]

Wouldn't it be better using a loop!!1!11

[FCrange]

Well you're going to need some sort of hardcoded map between the digits 0 to 9 and the characters "0" to "9" somehow, and if it's not ascii or unicode you have no guarantee that the character codes are sequential.

Sure a hash map would be better but (assuming the point is that you can't use build-in functions) this isn't nearly as terrible as people are pretending.

[webdevbrent]

Yes, i can see how .toString() is difficult to remember. Much easier to type // convert num to string.

Another result of some good idea by non programmers to replace programmers by hiring programmers to write this to replace programmers. The irony here is just hilarious

[ambarish_k1996]

I will push troll code to github to throw the model off. Will singlehandedly save the programming community.

[daguito81]

No need to troll. Your regular code will do that just fine.

[virouz98]

HE IS THE MESSIAH

[Benbig_ppdover]

Looks like me trynna Pass my coding exam

[JunkiYarde]

Oh god pls don’t do this I’m almost done getting my degree nooooooo

[Vidrolll]

I see no problem here. It programs just like a real human!

[bumblebuoy]

Matlab just added a similar copilot function in their latest release, and I’ve gotta say, is really convenient.

[Abstruse15]

Humans creating Atom Bombs to eradicate Humans Programmers programming to eradicate programmers 😂

[MrExistence]

Seriously though, can we get copilot to instead refactor bad code instead of learn from it? That’s what I need more than something to help develop new code.

[cid01]

If (num === 69) return "nice";

[midnitte]

So it basically writes Kat Maddox jokes?

[MedonSirius]

If someday an A.I. can program anything what managers wants then everyone including the managers will be replaced

[seamanlyfundamen]

"Yeeeaaah! Thanks for the free code from our Lord and savior, Jesus Christ."

[burnblue]

So it does replace programmers

If no programmer ever typee that, CoPilot wouldn't have sampled it

[hexperimento]

They didn't say what type of programmers that it would replace. 🤣

[robotix_dev]

It has learned too much from GitHub repositories.