[izgzhen]

It doesn’t calm to solve the bottleneck either. On the contrary, it clearly states that its mission is to solve the easy parts better so developers can focus better on the true challenging engineering problems as you mentioned.

[uncomputation]

This reminds me of a startup pitch where it’s always “oh we take care of x so you don’t have to,” but the problem is now I just have another thing to take care of. I cannot speak for people who use Copilot “fluently,” but I know for every chunk of code it spat out I would need to read every line and make sure “Is this right? Is the return type what I want? Will this loop terminate? Is ‘scan’ the right API? Is that string formatted properly? Can I optimize this?” etc. To me it’s hardly “solving the easy parts,” but rather putting the passenger’s hands on the wheel.

[gotostatement]

Upvoted. I think the only good use case for this is spitting out 10-line, annoying, commonly used API boilerplate for commonly used APIs

[izgzhen]

That is a valid use case despite being small and incremental. I think it will still be helpful to some people.

[izgzhen]

The easy part is the copy-paste-from-SO part ;)

[naikrovek]

if it doesn't claim to help any code production bottlenecks, then what good is it? it's just piping in code that may or may not contain a subtle bug or three.

That doesn't help anyone!!

I am usually pretty pro-Microsoft, but this tool is a security nightmare and a bad idea all around. It will cause many (most? all?) who use it far more work than it saves them, long-term.