How is everyone finding GitHub CoPilot? 🤔 Good / Bad ? 🤔
@prologic@twtxt.net Depends, if it can fix the Yarn app.
- It’s criminal: Copilot was only possible because of massive theft of other peoples’ work (no compensation or even acknowledgement to any of the developers whose code was used to create Copilot)
- It’s positioned to put software developers out of work or so fully de-skill them that they no longer know how to code anything but prompts (after which come corporate-justified salary and benefits decreases)
Don’t use it. No one should ever use it. You’re destroying your own future as a software developer by leaning on and supporting these things.
I haven’t used it. Now Visual Studio and VSCode have some features that ‘read’ your code and try predict what your are typing or autodocument. I don’t use those that much, but saves you a few seconds a day.
What has been magic to me is ChatGPT.
“On Python/PHP/C# how can I do (thing that I didn’t know yet or I’m lazy to do by hand)” or “Show me an example with this input, I’m expecting that output”
And almost every time it generates valid code, well explained, and taking your scenario into consideration.
It teaches you, saves time, it’s faster than reading documentation. I’m amazed.
@abucci@anthony.buc.ci I’m never too serious about code theft, because as developers, we all do a little copying and pasting from SO, or smashing the keyboard, until the code works somehow. Despite that, it’s still bullshit, that this was targeting all the open-source developers, who did not consent and probably also violating all kinds of open-source licenses in the process, yet at the end, it’s the proprietary developers and companies, who profit the most from it, despite contributing nothing, or the bare minimum.
@thecanine@twtxt.net Agreed, I find it rather ironic really. First Microsoft stole everyone’s open source works, without asking, without acknowledgement, Now they’re giving CoPilot free to use to all those they stole from?! 🤦♂️ LIke da fuq?!
It’s not going to stay free for too long. GitHub is going to start charging 10$/month per user for personal licenses and double that price, for every corporate employee - source
They also already announced Copilot 365, priced at an even more ridiculous 30$/month/user, for the corpo customers, that 365 package applies to - source
@thecanine@twtxt.net Gotta pay for that ~$250k/day price to run those many thousands of NVIDIA Telsa cards somehow 🤣