144

Interesting to see the benefits and drawbacks called out.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 22 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Using it to generate code isn't inherently bad (outside of copyright concerns). Especially in "stupid amount of boiler plate" languages/etc.

But the problem is that people are lazy. They don't bother understanding the output, making sure it does what you want it to, etc. It's not that different than people copy pasting code from reference material. Part of the beauty of software development is that you don't have to solve every problem someone else has already solved. But you do need to know what your code is doing and why.

Copilot is a shortcut to code that "works" with less requirement to know what's happening.

[-] evatronic@lemm.ee 9 points 9 months ago

I thought we solved the boilerplate issue with templates and snippets like 30 years ago.

[-] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 5 points 9 months ago

Not only that, but we solved it in a deterministic manner. The way LLMs go about it, by picking something they think sort of maybe looks like the right thing is more bother than it's worth.

this post was submitted on 27 Jan 2024
144 points (98.0% liked)

Programming

17314 readers
23 users here now

Welcome to the main community in programming.dev! Feel free to post anything relating to programming here!

Cross posting is strongly encouraged in the instance. If you feel your post or another person's post makes sense in another community cross post into it.

Hope you enjoy the instance!

Rules

Rules

  • Follow the programming.dev instance rules
  • Keep content related to programming in some way
  • If you're posting long videos try to add in some form of tldr for those who don't want to watch videos

Wormhole

Follow the wormhole through a path of communities !webdev@programming.dev



founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS