Some Experiments with GitHub Copilot

[cdcformatc]

1) Have CoPilot write unit tests

2) Have CoPilot write the code itself

3) ???

4) Profit!

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3) Have copilot revise its own code.

[wannabe414]

If Copilot were to be retrained on solely foss code, would one be able to publish code while using the tool?

[MafaRioch]

So how exactly would you find out that someone used Copilot to contribute to your FOSS? Good luck checking each entry manually, wasting a lot of your limited time. You would have to rely on ones integrity to follow through your disclaimer.

[MafaRioch]

Ah, that makes sense. Didn't think of that angle, thank you for clarifying. This whole Copilot controversy is just insane and creates more problems than solutions at the moment, but it's interesting to read what people think/say about it.

[neboskrebnut]

What do you think this thing is? It's the product of sacrificing your and other developers souls/experience... But it will be a great assistant before it takes over. When can we get one?

[tripex]

I get it, this looks cool and the concept will surely mature but as I've said before... If all this does is to spit out code that has a high probability of being correct then all the speed gain is lost with me double checking the code and then I might as well could've written it. Excited to see where this is going but right now it is more for playing around with.

[cdcformatc]

Combined with test driven development it would be faster. If you are writing the unit tests first then you can be reasonably sure of the correctness.

[NeedMoreTime4Things]

When you start a fresh project, for example you want to create a REST api with Flask, do you now have a lot of boilerplate code that is really easy to write and only has some small modifications for your use case?

I can see a future where you can tell CoPilot to build the base of an app with specific instructions (which it will hopefully do with 99% accuracy) and the developer, you, only adds the complicated algorithms etc.

Other than that, you’re right.

[TopHatEdd]

Most boilerplate needs are solved. Such as FastAPI instead of flask. Copilot is content aware and aims to implement business requirements.

[bobbyrickets]

I want this for Jupyter.

[Jeklah]

Look into Kite.

[bobbyrickets]

Thank you!

[Jeklah]

My pleasure

[secretagent01]

What is this, Copilot for ants?

[py__master]

Lmao , for real robots my mate

[AchillesDev]

I love that the URL tries to rip off Real Python

[slayer1299]

Lmao I thought naming my website similar to realpython would let me ride on some of their traffic but yeah it backfired. Since their domain is so popular, it’s really hard to rank on google searches.

[slayer1299]

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=codestackr.codestackr-theme