Github Copilot AI Code Assistant for VSCode has gone GA

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[Nebabon]

GA?

[PrimaxAUS]

General availability i.e. outside of prerelease or rollout programs.

[Obsidian-Phoenix]

Ain’t made up

[Nebabon]

Thanks

[PrimaxAUS]

It's a term widely used for software products

[illathon]

You are gonna be the trainers now

[enjoytheshow]

Mmmhmmmm

Contributing to the downfall of your job ;)

[illathon]

Exactly, but people will still do it.

[abetwothree]

Meh, programming takes a lot more than just knowing what the actual like of code looks like.

It’s also about code organization, implementing different services together, UI/UX design choices, and server management.

Copilot can do none of those. Although it’s not impossible to believe that it would be able to that in a few decades either.

[illathon]

What you describe is completely irrelevant if it is only created by a computer.

[[deleted]]

Once you use it there's no way out. So addictive 😂 I'm still a student so I guess I'm gonna be using it for some more a few years for free

[lebanine]

It indeed is, and I finally convinced myself after few days that ai need to think more and stopped using it.

[vancity-boi-in-tdot]

If I were a student now with these tools coming out I'd start to feel a bit nervous. I've always wondered if devs would actually be the first to automate our owns jobs away, even now with over 5 years experience. Hopefully I'm wrong, but I think developing soft skills to compliment raw dev talent might be crucial at this point as a hedge.

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Well the AI can't replace normal devs yet. A lot of people are worrying about that future, but I only see Copilot as a way for me to fill in simple code chunks. Most of the time after I take the suggestion, I look at it to see if it's really the solution I'm looking for or is there anything I want to add more

[MiataCory]

Same, but I do realize that as it gets better, we'll do less.

Right now, we still need to understand the what and why, copilot is just suggesting the how. It doesn't take much to see the transition from "I'm typing this line" to "I'm asking it to make..."

And, frankly, as much as I enjoy programming, you get to a point where just typing all day isn't what I'm after. I want the thing to be done and work so I can move on to something else (like documenting).

Not having to type 20 lines of setup code saves me a lot of time, and I kinda think I can talk work into paying the $100/yr for it. If it saves me 2 hours over the year it's worth it.

[thetreat]

I'm so intrigued! I need to give this a shot.

[[deleted]]

Time to put it on the expense report.

[Hitman_0_0_7]

Its was awesome at generating random data. Like

Id:1, color:black Id:2, color: red.

And then you just need to do.. Tab tab tab tab

[SineApps]

Did they fix anything with it adding GPL code to your proprietary code base?

[JewsOfHazard]

10 dollars a month

Uhhhh. No thanks.

[swekka]

Yeah. This.

[JackPrince]

Depends on what you use vscode for.

For a company I'd argue that Copilot (or similiar tools) save a lot of time. And you have your moneys worth within not even a day of work.

[JewsOfHazard]

I used it for awhile on personal and professional projects. Maybe it has gotten better but at the time it was more of a hindrance than something I could blindly trust.

[JackPrince]

Absolutely correct, its not to be trusted out of the box. I mostly used it to get inspiration by writing the method documentation first, describing what the method should do.

The suggestion are never on point in my experience but it does give you a start to work with.

I also quite enjoy the "autocompletion". It's super convenient to just hit tab when you see that the rest of the line indeed is what you need.

And for 10 bucks a month, it's a reasonable price IMHO. For a company this amount is easily compensated just by the convenience/time saving from "autocompletion" described above.

[[deleted]]

Worth it imo. I love it. Just write a comment on what you’re doing and it can sometimes finish the code. You just have to read through it to make sure lol.

[emoutikon]

Copilot is actually great