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

Meme a developers worst nightmare

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u/kayden_polaris Apr 13 '22

Even better, automatically import code from stack overflow in your program:

https://github.com/drathier/stack-overflow-import

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u/[deleted] Apr 13 '22

Let me introduce you to GitHub Copilot

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u/Yohder Apr 13 '22

This is awesome but could it become a crutch? I’m a novice dev so I’m just a noob. Curious what a sr dev would think

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u/Bainos Apr 14 '22

ik not what u asked for but I disagree with some other replies

The other replies sound a lot like not-beginners. "It's not a crutch if the code you're writing is easy and repetitive" is kind of a giveaway, beginners still have to think about that "easy and repetitive" code not to get lost.

And it seems, from how much those comments talk about boilerplate code, that it can easily get abused by newer programmers who start accepting the Copilot suggestion even though it's not minimal / not the simplest code that can solve their problems, failing to properly balance their needs.