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by leksak 1804 days ago
One thing not mentioned in this article but that's on Github Copilots page is that they imagine it'll be useful for learning how to code.

> ... or just learning to code

I've done some teaching and my mental model for what is necessary to learn a language and, more generally, learning how to program and my view is that the rudimentary boilerplate-y type of stuff that this tool seems to excel at are mindless to most are essential for beginners as part of their learning.

Any educators here with different ideas or thoughts?