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Another annoying thing about GitHub Copilot is that it tries to autocomplete my comments.

I would write some function and then write a comment that tries to be informative about that function and tell the reader something that they would take a long time to discover from just the code.

Every single time, though, Copilot tries to autocomplete my comments with the most obvious descriptions of what my function does, which would be obvious from the function name, and that distracts me to the point that I lose track of what I was trying to write.

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captjack 🏴‍☠️✨💜 2y ago

💯 😂

aidan 2y ago

Same :)

It’s like looking after a remarkable but slightly overly chatty 5 year old.

nvm 2y ago

garbage in, garbage out

fiatjaf 2y ago

You're saying my code is garbage, I see.

nvm 2y ago

You said that, not me!

I was implying the overall corpus of code copilot was trained on is unlikely to be pristine enough for many, but gigo is more succinct.

A second point would have been about difficulties modeling the utility of "no signal" in a giant system of weighted averages.

A third point would have been that the field overall is still so nascent, nearly all current human opinions are likely to be very far off the mark of what will end up being relevant.