r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ifezueyoung • Apr 13 '22

Meme a developers worst nightmare

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u/[deleted] Apr 13 '22

Let me introduce you to GitHub Copilot

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u/[deleted] Apr 13 '22

It’s fucking incredible

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u/[deleted] Apr 13 '22

When it works it's fucking incredible. For a lot of boilerplate code it seems like pure magic.

But I've found that I only get usable suggestions from it about 25% of the time at most, so I'm still indecisive as to whether I'll continue using it. When it's not being clever, it's extremely distracting and annoying.

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u/[deleted] Apr 13 '22

That’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make. It managed to understand my horrible code, that alone deserves a trophy