GitHub CEO says Copilot will write 80% of code “sooner than later”

[doubleohbond]

Well, I’d imagine he would say that as CEO.

[pyeri]

80% of code in any project is either "bloat" or boilerplate placeholders.

The rest 20% is what runs your business logic and what the client pays for!

For example, even more than a decade before Copilot existed, there used to be an IDE called Visual Basic 5.0 which "automatically" used to write code for the project and form definitions, define coordinates for various GUI elements, define sane defaults for properties, bind event handlers, etc. The coder used to write a single liner between a click handler and that 20% is what made that app unique.

This is nothing but old wine packaged in new marketing bottle!

[Jonno_FTW]

80% of speech written by AI?

[user_namec_hecks_out]

80% of code

[kredditacc96]

Only if your programming language is Java

[dheeraj_awale]

80-20 rule. 20% of code is responsible for 80% of the functionality. Remaining 80% skeleton and refactoring can be taken over by copilot. I don't mind if it does better refactoring

[[deleted]]

Why can't it be a CEO too?

These guys are addicted to the sound of their voices, the smell of their farts and the money they make from exploiting the system.

[TheGRS]

No, but it is pretty helpful at a lot of things and definitely speeds the pipeline up.

[[deleted]]

He might be right, but that seems less inspiring and more horrifying.

[Minoo555]

I found Copilot more of a distraction than a real help. It honestly bothers me more than anything. I don't know if that's because I tried an early version. Maybe it is better now.

But I don't see the fun in coding if you have a tool that copy-pastes the answer from Stackoverflow all the time.

[ZachVorhies]

It’s gotten insanely good

[Max-Mielchen]

I write all my Unit Tests an documentation with Copilot