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by deckard1
1243 days ago
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If it's an assistant that you constantly have to double check their work, then they would get fired ASAP. That's the problem with Copilot. If I'm not familiar with the API calls then I'm still going to have to dig into the docs. I could run it and it might "work", but that doesn't guarantee that it's correct. There are a whole lot of things in the C API that work but are not correct, such as the gets() function. If I have to do such legwork then it's just as easy to write the code myself. The utility of AI is proportional to the trust one has in it. Trust is easy to lose and hard to regain. It will take just a few AI mishaps to ruin a product or even an entire industry. |
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It's an assistant that creates drafts for you. You still need to check them, but usually reading is a lot easier and less time-consuming than writing. I used it a couple of times to compose some long replies email, and it was just fantastic. I had to fix some minor stuff, but I complete the task in less than 5 minutes while without ChatGPT it would take me about 30 minutes.
> That's the problem with Copilot. If I'm not familiar with the API calls then I'm still going to have to dig into the docs. I could run it and it might "work", but that doesn't guarantee that it's correct.
You have to run/compile it anyway and if you combine it with existing tools (linters, type checkers and so on) you will detect this kind of anomalies very soon.