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I didn't feel like weighing into that Twitter thread, but in the screenshot one will notice that the code generated by Copilot has secretly(?) swapped the order of the interior parameters to "cs_done". Maybe that's fine, but maybe it's not, how in the world would a Copilot consumer know to watch out for that? Double extra good if a separate prompt for "cs_done" comingles multiple implementations where some care and some don't. Partying ensues!

Not to detract from the well founded licensing discussion, but who is it that finds this madlibs approach useful in coding?



In my opinion Copilot helps with the easy, boring stuff by typing what I likely would have typed anyway. The harder the code to write, the less likely I'd be to lean on Copilot.


The only algorithm I'll accept from copilot is a rot13 function, it got the rot26 one wrong.


And the easy, boring, legally unproblematic stuff can already be handled by good IDE completion features. As a bonus those are actually tested and deterministic.


I use an IDE with plenty of smart completion. Copilot offers considerably more (otherwise I wouldn't use or pay for it).




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