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I've been using GitHub Copilot for a week and my experience is that it is indeed incredible sometimes and saves from having to write repeated or boring functions, but more often than not it is not incredible, it is wrong, and the constant stream of wrong suggestions distracts me from what I had in mind and was writing.

Plus it has also tricked me into thinking it had written correct function implementations more than once and led me into wasting time debugging its errors just because I wasn't 100% attentive while checking what it had written for me.

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Woesh 2y ago

Would copilot be a good extra to help learn me code? Say instead of full on GBT? Ihave an idea for an app but can’t code yet.

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fiatjaf 2y ago

I've heard that some people are "learning to code" using that, but after my experience I don't think that is a good idea at all. I am unlearning what I knew even.

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Woesh 2y ago

Good point. Tnx 🙏

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